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Beneath Ceaseless Skies (ISSN 1946-1046) is a SFWA-qualifying, pro-rate online magazine dedicated to publishing literary adventure fantasy: fantasy set in secondary-world or historical settings, written with a literary focus on the characters.

In seven years BCS has published over 375 stories and 175 audio fiction podcasts. We have been a finalist for three Hugo Awards, one British Science Fiction Association Award, three Parsec podasting awards, three Aurealis Awards, and five World Fantasy Awards, and stories from BCS have won the Aurealis Award and the World Fantasy Award.

We love traditional adventure fantasy, including classics from the pulp era and the new wave of post-Tolkien fantasy. But we also love how the recent influence of Realist literary writing on fantasy short fiction has expanded the genre, allowing writers the freedom to use literary devices such as tight points-of-view, round characters, unreliable narrators, discontinuous narratives, and others. This sophisticated level of craft has made fantasy short fiction more powerful than ever before.

We want stories that combine the best of both these styles--adventure fantasy plots in vivid secondary worlds, but written with a literary flair. Beneath Ceaseless Skies features exciting stories set in awe-inspiring places that are told with all the skill and impact of modern literary-influenced fantasy.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies publishes two stories per issue, with a new issue every two weeks. Readers can subscribe by email notification or by RSS feed, or for automatic delivery to Kindle. We release all issues as ebooks and selected stories as Audio Fiction podcasts. We publish annual Best-of ebook anthologies and occasional theme anthologies of stories from the magazine. We maintain a News page, a Facebook page, and a Twitter feed @BCSmagazine to update submitting writers and to encourage reader discussion of all things fantasy.

Works in the WWEnd Database

2020 BOUND BY SORROW Maurice Broaddus	2020 EYETOOTH Chris Willrich	2020 MANY MANSIONS K. J. Parker	2019 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST K. J. Parker	2019 DO NOT LOOK BACK, MY LION Alix E. Harrow	2018 THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS K. J. Parker
2018 THE EMOTIONLESS, IN LOVE Jason Sanford	2018 SHADOWDROP Chris Willrich	2018 WE RAGGED FEW Kate Marshall	2018 THE STARSHIP AND THE TEMPLE CAT Yoon Ha Lee	2017 RED BARK AND AMBERGRIS Kate Marshall	2017 THE FISHERMAN AND THE PIG Kameron Hurley
2017 WHATEVER KNIGHT COMES Ryan Row	2017 A PORTRAIT OF THE DESERT IN PERSONAGES OF POWER R. B. Lemberg	2017 CARNIVAL NINE Caroline M. Yoachim	2017 RIVERS RUN FREE Charles Payseur	2016 THE BOOK OF HOW TO LIVE R. B. Lemberg	2016 A SALVAGING OF GHOSTS Aliette de Bodard
2016 LAWS OF NIGHT AND SILK Seth Dickinson	2016 FOXFIRE, FOXFIRE Yoon Ha Lee	2016 BLOOD GRAINS SPEAK THROUGH MEMORIES Jason Sanford	2016 THE ORANGERY Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam	2016 THE NIGHT BAZAAR FOR WOMEN BECOMING REPTILES Rachael K. Jones	2016 IN SKANDER, FOR A BOY Chaz Brenchley
2016 TOLD BY AN IDIOT K. J. Parker	2015 THE KING IN THE CATHEDRAL Rich Larson	2015 UNEARTHLY LANDSCAPE BY A LADY Rebecca Campbell	2015 GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING R. B. Lemberg	2015 GRANDMOTHER-NAI-LEYLIT'S CLOTH OF WINDS R. B. Lemberg	2014 THE BONEDRAKE'S PENANCE Yoon Ha Lee
2014 THE BREATH OF WAR Aliette de Bodard	2014 HEAVEN THUNDERS THE TRUTH K. J. Parker	2014 THE MANOR OF LOST TIME Richard Parks	2013 ON THE ORIGIN OF SONG Naim Kabir	2013 CHERRY BLOSSOMS ON THE RIVER OF SOULS Richard Parks	2012 THE CASTLE THAT JACK BUILT Emily Gilman
2012 THE GOVERNESS AND THE LOBSTER Margaret Ronald	2012 THE TELLING Gregory Norman Bossert	2011 HELD CLOSE IN SYLLABLES OF LIGHT R. B. Lemberg	2011 THE CALENDAR OF SAINTS Kat Howard	2008 THE SWORD OF LOVING KINDNESS Chris Willrich

Authors Published

• K. Parker  • R. B. Lemberg  • Chris Willrich  • Yoon Lee  • Aliette de Bodard  • Billy Parks  • Jason Sanford  • Kate Marshall  • Naim Kabir  • Ryan Row  • Seth Dickinson  • Maurice Broaddus  • Chaz Brenchley  • Kameron Hurley  • Kat Howard  • Caroline Yoachim  • Rebecca Campbell  • Gregory Bossert  • Alix Harrow  • Bonnie Stufflebeam  • Richard Larson  • Rachael Jones  • Charles Payseur  • Emily Gilman  • Margaret Ronald