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The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Nine
Sixteen more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the six-time Hugo Award and nine-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”
Authors include A.M. Dellamonica, Gregory Norman Bossert, Rose Lemberg, Richard Parks, Margaret Killjoy, and Charles Payseur. Stories include "The Orangery" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, a finalist for the Nebula Awards, and "Carnival Nine" by Caroline M. Yoachim, a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards.
Authors include A.M. Dellamonica, Gregory Norman Bossert, Rose Lemberg, Richard Parks, Margaret Killjoy, and Charles Payseur. Stories include "The Orangery" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, a finalist for the Nebula Awards, and "Carnival Nine" by Caroline M. Yoachim, a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards.
329 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2018
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About the author
Scott H. Andrews
465 books24 followersScott H. Andrews is a writer of science fiction. He teaches college chemistry. He is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Andrews's short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Space and Time, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, On Spec, Crossed Genres, and M-Brane SF.
Andrews's short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Space and Time, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, On Spec, Crossed Genres, and M-Brane SF.
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March 25, 2021
An amazing deal for some great adventure fantasy, although not every story in this best-of anthology is a winner for me. Two ones made it to my best short prose list, and seriously took my breath away:
“Carnival Nine” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“Red Bark and Ambergris” by Kate Alice Marshall, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Orangery, Rivers Run Free, and Ora Et Labora were also amazing pieces that felt like they represented the best of what Beneath Ceaseless Skies had to offer. Other pieces I did not finish! Overall, this anthology reminds me how good of a magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is and how many different subgenres and aesthetics fantasy can draw on while creating a coherant narrative. Real inspirational.
“Carnival Nine” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“Red Bark and Ambergris” by Kate Alice Marshall, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Orangery, Rivers Run Free, and Ora Et Labora were also amazing pieces that felt like they represented the best of what Beneath Ceaseless Skies had to offer. Other pieces I did not finish! Overall, this anthology reminds me how good of a magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is and how many different subgenres and aesthetics fantasy can draw on while creating a coherant narrative. Real inspirational.
December 15, 2020
This book was a collection of 17 stories published in 2018 from this periodical. Most were quite good; I recognized a few from annual compilations of "the best" for that year. I wanted to read them to see what kinds of stories Beneath Ceaseless Skies liked to publish.
For $3.99, it was a good deal.
As far as I was concerned, the best of them included:
Carnival Nine by Caroline Yoakim
That Lingering Sweetness by Tony Pi
Whatever Knight Comes by Ryan Row
Men of Ashen Morrow by Margaret Killjoy
The Book of How to Live by Rose Lemberg
For $3.99, it was a good deal.
As far as I was concerned, the best of them included:
Carnival Nine by Caroline Yoakim
That Lingering Sweetness by Tony Pi
Whatever Knight Comes by Ryan Row
Men of Ashen Morrow by Margaret Killjoy
The Book of How to Live by Rose Lemberg
November 14, 2023
No navigation
No navigation between stories or index. What I managed to find paging through blindly did not impress me at all.
While the beginnings of stories that I tried were weak, plot-wise, I didn't see any actual errors but I didn't try all, because of the aforementioned lack of indexing. DNF
No navigation between stories or index. What I managed to find paging through blindly did not impress me at all.
While the beginnings of stories that I tried were weak, plot-wise, I didn't see any actual errors but I didn't try all, because of the aforementioned lack of indexing. DNF
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