The BCS Audio Vault
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Classic episodes of the Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcast with a new introduction by the author or narrator.
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BCS Audio Vault 041: A Nickel For The Burlap Man
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:00:55 +0000
By Patty Templeton, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, detailing the feel and inspirations for the story’s world of Shady Grove.The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.
BCS Audio Vault 040: Portrait of the Artist
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:00:32 +0000
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #369 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by narrator Carla Kissane, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.“I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious.
BCS Audio Vault 039: The Thought That Counts
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 04:00:00 +0000
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #368 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by audiobook and podcast narrator Heath Miller, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name.
BCS Audio Vault 038: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 04:00:26 +0000
By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #364 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining elements of the Birdverse world and culture and characters that appear in the novella and how one of the characters connects with the new Birdverse novel The Unbalancing.Across great distances I hear her voice rolling over the sand, traipsing gently above bones of impossible beasts that perhaps had one day populated the desert.
BCS Audio Vault 037: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 04:00:01 +0000
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #362 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
With an introduction from the author, explaining their beliefs on the story’s theme of individual freedom and autonomy.The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sapo kneels by the doe and feels for the outlines of the little one with her fingers. A gasp escapes her when it moves under the dead doe's skin.
BCS Audio Vault 036: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch
Thu, 02 Jun 2022 04:00:52 +0000
By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #357 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations in complicity with institutional systems and activism risking that status for beliefs or people you believe in.It burns like dust in Sere’s eyes to hear Tashet take her name back, to keep for herself.
BCS Audio Vault 035: The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:00:07 +0000
By Peter Darbyshire, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the genesis of the Angel Azrael character, his horror-influenced Weird Western world, and the personal bibles in that world.The angel Azrael surveyed the remains of the town. The place was as dead as the horse he sat on.
BCS Audio Vault 034: Gennesaret
Thu, 03 Mar 2022 05:00:57 +0000
By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations from inter-generational political attitudes in families of immigrants and patriarchal culture and how its use of science-fantasy elements shaped its presentation.She says instead: "because he isn’t coming."
BCS Audio Vault 033: The Three Feats of Agani
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:00:48 +0000
By Christie Yant, from Issue #347 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, posing questions as to who stories belong to and whether they matter.I had hoped to tell you the first story in the summers to come. It is my sorrowful task to tell you all three, instead.
BCS Audio Vault 032: As Tight As Any Knot
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:00:30 +0000
By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #344 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, the two authors behind the M.A. Carrick pen name, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson.Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.
BCS Audio Vault 031: Undercurrents
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:00:09 +0000
By Charles Payseur, from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s take on resistance and cooperation.Rory nods. The bullets are Lutean-made, salt and iron and whatever special magic they use to make them potent against rivers.
BCS Audio Vault 030: Rivers Run Free
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:00:54 +0000
By Charles Payseur, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s element that oppression can link people together and can tear people apart.We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 04:00:33 +0000
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, discussing the story’s approach to characters and politics and to political systems.I don't want to make all our letters about shrews, love, but... I've attached a table I'd like to see filled out with different properties of the shrews and their venom. Thank you!
BCS Audio Vault 028: The Mermaid Astronaut
Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:00:43 +0000
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the inspiration for the story and its ending note.This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam.
BCS Audio Vault 027: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:00:29 +0000
By Fran Wilde, from Issue #233 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much.
BCS Audio Vault 026: Everything Beneath You
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 04:00:09 +0000
By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #214 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I wanted to ask her more questions, about the way the world was made, about death and dreams, but did not want to know the answers.
BCS Audio Vault 025: And Blow Them at the Moon
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 04:00:32 +0000
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Magrat was right. This man stood at the heart of it.
BCS Audio Vault 024: The Topaz Marquise
Thu, 05 May 2016 04:00:02 +0000
By Fran Wilde, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz.
BCS Audio Vault 023: No Sweeter Art
Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:00:26 +0000
By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by audiobook and podcast narrator John Meagher.My soul sunk beneath the platform planks and into a sturdy ox figurine with wisps of cooled caramel for its horns.
BCS Audio Vault 022: The Breath of War
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 04:00:58 +0000
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.She would have run, but her legs betrayed her—a contraction, locking her in place, as frozen as the baby within her womb.
BCS Audio Vault 021: The Book of Locked Doors
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:00:39 +0000
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.She cursed herself for freezing up and ruminating when the proper response was to react.
BCS Audio Vault 020: In the Age of Iron and Ashes
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:00:30 +0000
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #187 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat.
BCS Audio Vault 019: The Nine-Tailed Cat
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:00:42 +0000
By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails.
BCS Audio Vault 018: Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride
Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:00:20 +0000
By Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.So when Mister Hadj said that a stone in the road told him where we'd find Parson Lucifer, I didn’t doubt it.
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 04:00:31 +0000
By Erin Cashier, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it.
BCS Audio Vault 016: Blighted Heart
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:00:13 +0000
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.His eyes, shining yellow in the night, were the ones I remembered from the day I had lost my heart.
BCS Audio Vault 015: The Ascent of Unreason
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:00:08 +0000
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.If Tolyat wanted to see the whole of Driftwood at once, he had to get close to the Crush.
BCS Audio Vault 014: Between Shifting Skin and Certainty
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 04:00:27 +0000
By Justin Howe, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.“If it was the last skin you wore,” he said, “would you take it?”
BCS Audio Vault 013: Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping
Fri, 02 Jan 2015 04:00:43 +0000
By Geoffrey Maloney, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the narrator, T.D. Edge.They couldn't be serious, Morrow thought...but then the Major allowed the squid to slip from his fingers and into his mouth.
BCS Audio Vault 012: The Last Gorgon
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 04:00:48 +0000
By Rajan Khanna, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I lift the Gorgon’s head and remember my mother as she lay dying in her bed.
BCS Audio Vault 011: System, Magic, Spirit
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:00:13 +0000
By T.D. Edge, from Issue #162 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.There's nothing better than low-ranking, fad-following royalty for extinguishing any last desire to even bother fighting for one's life against other wizards in the Ring.
BCS Audio Vault 010: Armistice Day
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 04:00:39 +0000
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #161 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Things got worse when they started to have their flush of post-war babies and wanted us back out again.
BCS Audio Vault 009: Ill-Met at Midnight
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 04:00:53 +0000
By David Tallerman, from Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by narrator John Meagher.The target was thrashing hard enough that the smooth handles of the garrote were biting into Otranto's palms.
BCS Audio Vault 008: The Suffering Gallery
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:00:16 +0000
By Matthew Kressel, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.“Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?”
BCS Audio Vault 007: Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:00:53 +0000
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.But we—we are alive, in a way that no other making will be.
BCS Audio Vault 006: The Penitent
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:00:48 +0000
By M. Bennardo, from Issue #156 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.All day, No. 17596 waited, but the guards never came.
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:00:28 +0000
By Kathryn Allen, from Issue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by author Marie Brennan.I take my time undressing her, half-expecting for The Marshal to come calling.
BCS Audio Vault 004: Precious Meat
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:00:09 +0000
By Catherine S. Perdue, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by audiobook narrator John Meagher.I am Boon. I lead my pack.
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:00:31 +0000
By Kenneth Mark Hoover, from Issue #153 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Her words got me to thinking about my past. What there was to remember.
BCS Audio Vault 002: One Ear Back
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 04:00:50 +0000
By Tina Connolly, from Issue #152 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I was looking into his ankle, then there was a frightening jerk on my tail and I was peering into his long wide face.
BCS Audio Vault 001: How the Wicker Knight Would Not Move
Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:29:37 +0000
By Chris Willrich, from Issue #151 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by Hugo Award-winning editor Lou Anders."And yet Now is upon us," said Tvarn Wind-Tamer. "For the Perfection is moving. Look."