(the base of the 2009 Hugo Award)
I hear a rumor that copies of the issue have made their way to the Night Shade Books warehouse and will be shipping shortly. While you wait for your issue, check out a few of the stories here:
(John Joseph Adams holding the Electric Velocipede Best Fanzine Hugo)'Stunned’ aptly describes how I would feel if I was in the room with you. I’d likely remain in my seat until someone nudged me to get up and accept the award. Once there, I’d either launch into an ill-advised improvised attempt at being funny about being the future of short fiction or I’d just stand and mumble some thank yous and ‘a project like this can’t be done without the help of others.’ But, since I am writing this well in advance so that Mr. Adams doesn’t have to improvise, I can provide you with something more coherent.How freaking awesome is this?
Thank you, so much, to the members of Worldcon and it’s constituent Hugo voters. I cannot explain to you how much this means to me. Thank you first, for finding me worthy of nomination and second, worthy of the final prize. Thank you to my mother and grandmother for nurturing my love of the written word from an early age. Thank you to Jim Frenkel for getting me into publishing in the first place. Thank you to Gavin Grant for inspiring me to create Electric Velocipede. Thank you to my wife for putting up with this craziness for so many years. And finally, thank you to all the authors and artists who make the content for Electric Velocipede; without them, there would be no award to accept.
Gardner Dozois' annual Year's Best Science Fiction recently hit the shelves, and I went to the bookstore to see if any Electric Velocipede stories made the recommended reading list at the back of the volume.
My content is more suited to the late Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, so I never know if there'll be anything to make Dozois' cut. Of course, many of the year's best editors make note of the fact that I'm more prone to publish science fiction than similar magazines, so take this all with a grain of salt.
From Electric Velocipede #14
Special Award—Non-professionalCongrats to all the nominees!
Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)
John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
Elise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her "artist's challenges.")
Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarkesworld)
Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)
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