The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two

by Scott H. Andrews (Editor), Aliette de Bodard (Contributor), Margaret Ronald

Sixteen more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine.

Authors include Marie Brennan, Marissa Lingen, Margaret Ronald, Campbell Award finalist Aliette de Bodard, Nebula and Campbell Finalist Saladin Ahmed, and Hugo Finalist and Nebula winner 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.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories

286 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 22, 2009

About the author

Scott 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.

Reviews

[Esther · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fabulous magazine! I loved this anthology from this magazine's second year as much as I loved the first year. Such beautiful, moving stories. Also lots of steampunk showing up in this year's edition.

Perfect for Me
"The Isthmus Variation" by Kris Millering
"Remembering Light" by Marie Brennan
"Great, Golden Wings" by Rachel Swirsky

Enjoyable, worked for me
"The Six Skills of Madame Lumiere" by Marissa Lingen
"A Serpent in the Gears" by Margaret Ronald
"The Leafsmith in Love" by K.J. Kabza
"Eighth Eye" by Erin Cashier
"More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand" by Rosamund Hodge
"Throwing Stones" by Mishell Baker
"Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood" by Aliette de Bodard
"And Other Such Delights" by James Lecky
"Pawn's Gambit" by Adam Heine
"Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride" by Saladin Ahmed
"To Kiss the Granite Choir"by Michael Anthony Ashley

Fine, but didn't talk to me
"The Pirate Captain's Daughter" by Yoon Ha Lee
"The Motor, the Mirror, the Mind" by T.F. Davenport

Not my Cup of Tea

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short story about a cinematographist living in the world ruled by magicians. A young man passionate about his work finds himself bound by the preconceptions of the society. Great magicians and illusionists find themselves threatened by the young documentary cinematographist, and with the always popular "this is my turf" attitude they see fit to drive him "out of Dodge" to earn his bread and fulfill his dreams elsewhere.
Nice short by Rachel Swirsky.

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