The Murverse Mothership

(I’m writing this early , so this will be edited with full nomination list soon)

Holy crap, y’all.

The Hugo Award nominations were announced today, and I can finally announce that not only did Escape Pod get nominated for Best Semiprozine, BUT also my brilliant co-editor S.B. Divya and I are nominated for Best Editor(s), Short Form!

In further amazing news, our sister magazine, Podcastle, was also nominated for Semiprozine!

There is so much amazing speculative fiction happening right now, if I stop to think about how our magazine is in the same fighting class as sites like Fiyah, Strange Horizons, and F&SF, I might actually get frightened and freeze up. I would love to go back in time and tell Young Mur what her career would turn out to be, but I don’t think she’d believe me.

I’ll be honest, though. The Escape Pod nomination isn’t that shocking because our team is phenomenal. I kind of hold on tight while Divya’s hard science brilliance shines and Benjamin C. Kinney’s management of our immensely talented and diverse associate editor team deftly handles all the incoming stories. With the thoughtful host spots of Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart (who has a slew of his own good news to share today!) and the skill of producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht, the magazine we create is a thing of beauty.

But credit also goes to our authors. We couldn’t bring our audience amazing content every week if you didn’t trust us with your stories.

The editor nod is just … still not real yet. Let me work on processing that.

Luckily I have time to process because the Hugos ceremony isn’t until December. Just … eight… more… months. (Thanks, Covid.)