One BCS story and multiple other BCS authors will appear in this year’s edition of the annual year’s-best anthology Heiresses of Russ!

“Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” by Rose Lemberg, from BCS #175, also a finalist for this year’s Nebula Awards, leads off the table of contents.

Heiresses of Russ, an anthology series of the year’s best lesbian speculative fiction, is edited this year by BCS author A.M. Dellamonica (“The Boy Who Would Not Be Enchanted” in BCS #209) and Steve Berman.

It includes other stories by BCS authors:

• Sarah Pinsker (“The Mountains His Crown” in BCS #195 Science-Fantasy Month 3 and podcast BCS 171)
• Megan Arkenberg (“Juggernaut” in Issue #91 Science-Fantasy Month, “The Summer King” in BCS #59, among others)
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” in BCS #144 and podcast BCS 124, among others)
• Claire Humphrey (“Your Figure Will Assume Beautiful Outlines” in BCS #135, and “Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves” forthcoming in January).

Congratulations, all!

Two BCS stories have been selected for The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, edited by Rich Horton:

• “The King in the Cathedral” by Rich Larson, in BCS #166 and podcast BCS 144

• “Unearthly Landscape by a Lady” by Rebecca Campbell, in BCS #184 and podcast BCS 161

Congratulations!

And, in BCS Authors Elsewhere news, this anthology also features other stories by several BCS authors:

• Gregory Norman Bossert (“The Leaves Upon Her Falling Light” in BCS #158, and “The Telling” in BCS #109, which won the World Fantasy Award)

• Chaz Brenchley (“In Skander, for a Boy,” forthcoming early in 2016)

• Seth Dickinson (“Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation” in BCS #143 – Science-Fantasy Month 2 and podcast BCS 123, “The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds” in BCS #85 and podcast BCS 073, and several more)

• Genevieve Valentine (“The Finest Spectacle Anywhere” in BCS #78, among others)

• Yoon Ha Lee (“Two to Leave” in BCS #174 and podcast BCS 151, “The Bonedrake’s Penance” in #143 – Science-Fantasy Month 2, “Shadow’s Weave” forthcoming in 2016, and many more)

Two more BCS authors have stories appearing in other magazines this month, and one a reprint audio podcast of her BCS story:

• M. Bennardo (“A Guest of the Cockroach Club”  in BCS #160 last month, “The Penitent” in BCS #122 and podcast BCS 106 and the new Best of BCS Year Five anthology, among several other stories and podcasts) in the December Clarkesworld

• Tom Crosshill (“Bearslayer and the Black Knight” in BCS #92 and podcast BCS 080; “Waiting for Number Five” in BCS #40 and podcast BCS 036 and our steampunk anthology Ceaseless Steam) also in the December Clarkesworld

• Alan Baxter (“Not the Worst of Sins” in BCS #133) in the Jan/Feb F&SF

• Claire Humphrey (“Your Figure Will Assume Beautiful Outlines” in BCS #135) with an audio podcast of that story at Podcastle

Congratulations!

Four BCS stories have been named to this year’s edition of the annual year’s-best anthology Heiresses of Russ!

• “The Coffinmaker’s Love” by Alberto Yáñez from BCS #131
• “Blood, Stone, Water” by A.J. Fitzwater from BCS #118
• “Your Figure Will Assume Beautiful Outlines” by Claire Humphrey from BCS #135
• “Boat in Shadows, Crossing” by Tori Truslow (a finalist for the BSFA Award) from BCS #113 and podcast BCS 100 (a finalist for the Parsec Award)

Also appearing in Heiresses of Russ 2014, which is an anthology series of the year’s best lesbian speculative fiction, edited this year by Melissa Scott and Steve Berman, are several BCS authors with stories that appeared elsewhere:

• Kenneth Schneyer (“Serkers and Sleep” in BCS #96)
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“The Crows Her Dragon’s Gate” in BCS #118 and “Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” in BCS #144)
• Cat Rambo (“Love, Resurrected” in BCS #65 and a new novelette “Rappaccini’s Crow” forthcoming in BCS #151 in July)

And all bound behind that gorgeous retro-yet-futuristic cover art. Congratulations, all!

Peadar Ó Guilín’s story “Heartless” from BCS #84 has been reprinted at Podcastle as an audio podcast. It has a vivid and strange world; give it a listen.

Other BCS authors with stories appearing elsewhere recently include:

• Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” in BCS #144, our current issue, podcasted with a guest narrator in podcast BCS 124, and “The Crows Her Dragon’s Gate” in BCS #118) in the April issue of Clarkesworld

• Ferrett Steinmetz (“My Father’s Wounds” in BCS #75 and podcast BCS 065, plus another) with a story in the April issue of Apex

Congratulations, all!

“The Mote-Dancer and the Firelife,”  Chris Willrich’s tale of laser pistols and spousal grief from BCS #90, one of the issues in our first Science-Fantasy Month back in March 2012, has been named to editor Rich Horton’s new anthology Space Opera.

The cover, at right, looks gorgeous, and the anthology includes space opera stories by several other BCS authors:

• Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“The Crows Her Dragon’s Gate” in BCS #118, and a new story “Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” forthcoming in text and podcast this April)
• Aliette de Bodard (“Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood” in BCS #45 and podcast BCS 041 and several others, including “The Breath of War” forthcoming as text and podcast next week in BCS Science-Fantasy Month 2)
• Yoon Ha Lee (“The Book of Locked Doors” in BCS #91 and podcast BCS 078 and several others, including “The Bonedrake’s Penance” forthcoming in three weeks in BCS Science Fantasy Month 2)

Congratulations, all!

“On the Origin of Song” by Naim Kabir, a complex tale from BCS #131 that’s told through nested documents and reports, including text left in a character’s footprints after he sets metal type on the soles of his shoes, has been named by editor Rich Horton to The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014.

Congratulations! “On the Origin of Song” is a fascinating and unique read, by a talented new author.

Other BCS authors appearing in this Year’s Best SF&F: 2014 with stories from other magazines include Yoon Ha Lee (“The Book of Locked Doors” in BCS #91 and several others, including a forthcoming piece in BCS Science Fantasy Month 2 in March: “The Bonedrake’s Penance”) and Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“The Crows Her Dragon’s Gate” in BCS #118, and a new story “Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” forthcoming in text and podcast this April).

Three BCS stories have been named to the forthcoming new anthology The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures!

• “The Curse of Chimère” by Tony Pi, from BCS #53
• “Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood” by Aliette de Bodard, from BCS #45
• “The Governess and the Lobster” by Margaret Ronald, from BCS #95

This volume, like a previous Mammoth steampunk anthology (cover at right) is edited by Sean Wallace of Clarkesworld and The Dark. It also features several other BCS authors with stories from other magazines or original stories:

• Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“The Crows Her Dragon’s Gate” in BCS #118, and a new story “Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” forthcoming in text and podcast this April)
• E. Catherine Tobler (“Artificial Nocturne” in BCS #126, “Lady Marmalade” in BCS #98, and a new story “We, As One, Trailing Embers” forthcoming this year)
• Alex Dally MacFarlane (“Singing Like a Hundred Dug-up Bones” in BCS #121, “Fox Bones. Many Uses.” in BCS #99, and “Women in Sandstone” forthcoming this spring)
• Jonathan Wood (“The Mathematics of Faith” in BCS #26; “Preservation” in BCS #11)
• Genevieve Valentine (“The Finest Spectacle Anywhere” in BCS #68; “Bread and Circuses” in BCS #55)

Congratulations, all!

“Sinking Among Lilies” by Cory Skerry, from BCS #92, has been chosen to appear in the anthology Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013, edited by Paula Guran.

This anthology, published by Prime Books, will also include Peter S. Beagle, Jeffrey Ford, Neil Gaiman, and BCS authors Rachel Swirsky and Genevieve Valentine.

It’s the second year in a row that this anthology will feature a story from BCS. Last year’s edition (at right) included  “Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin” by Adam Callaway, from BCS #73.

Congratulations to Cory! “Sinking Among Lilies” is a fantasy ‘lone-warrior’ story with a great undertone of creepy suspense and oppression. Check it out, if you haven’t already.