‘‘Literary adventure fantasy’’ is my tagline for literary or character-centered fantasy set in other worlds. I loved Locus Online’s review that BCS has ‘‘revive(d) adventure fantasy, secondary-world fantasy, as a respectable subgenre of short fiction, raising it from the midden of disdain into which it had been cast by most of the rest of the field.’’ And ‘‘midden’’ is such a great historical fantasy word!īCS focuses on ‘‘literary adventure fantasy.’’ How do you define that? Why focus on those sorts of stories in particular? Nine years and almost 500 stories later, I’m delighted that there is that it’s being written and read and recognized as worthy genre literature. I knew there were authors interested in that sort of fiction, slipstream writers who had grown up on epic fantasy or D&D, and I hoped there was a readership for it. There were lots of great literary fantasy, slipstream, and magical realism, and decades of great literary SF, but rarely were magazines publishing character-centered or stylistically bold fantasy set in invented worlds. I started BCS in 2008 because the F/SF short fiction field had no dedicated home for literary or character-driven secondary-world fantasy. Give us some background on your magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
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