Beneath Ceaseless Skies


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_Beneath Ceaseless Skies_ is a free online magazine of literary adventure fantasy. We've published short stories and audio fiction podcasts by authors such as Marie Brennan, Richard Parks, Holly Phillips, and Aliette de Bodard. _BCS_ was runner-up for the 2008 Million Writers Award for Best New Magazine, and in 2009 editor Rich Horton called us "a really important source of fantasy."

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The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Three    by Scott H. Andrews (Editor)
Price: $3.99 USD. 109270 words. Published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies  on August 17, 2012. .

Eighteen more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine. Authors include Richard Parks, Margaret Ronald, Genevieve Valentine, and World Fantasy Award-winner Steve Rasnic Tem. Includes four stories that received Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois's The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection.
Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine    by Scott H. Andrews (Editor)
Price: $3.99 USD. 113750 words. Published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies  on April 18, 2012. .

Eighteen steampunk short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, that take readers to awe-inspiring worlds ranging from a steampunk alternate Aztec society to a Renaissance Italy powered by mechanically imprisoned demons; from Baroque Paris and Bavaria and Vienna to a steampunk 1920s silent movie studio and a fantastical mechanical city that bounces up and down like a pogo stick.
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two    by Scott H. Andrews (Editor)
Price: $2.99 USD. 109320 words. Published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies  on July 31, 2011. .

Sixteen more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine. Authors include Marie Brennan, Aliette de Bodard, Saladin Ahmed, and Rachel Swirsky. Includes "The Isthmus Variation" by Kris Millering, named to Locus's 2010 Recommended Reading List, and "The Pirate Captain's Daughter" by Yoon Ha Lee, a Finalist for the 2010 WSFA Small Press Award.
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year One    by Scott H. Andrews (Editor)
Price: $2.99 USD. 103390 words. Published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies  on February 10, 2010. .

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Fourteen short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine. Features authors Marie Brennan, Richard Parks, and Campbell Award finalist Aliette de Bodard. Includes "Thieves of Silence" by Holly Phillips, named to Locus's 2009 Recommended Reading List, and "Father's Kill" by Christopher Green, winner of the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story.


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