Hugo Nominations!
The 2022 Hugo Award finalists have been announced and EA is honored to have picked up multiple nominations!
We are thrilled to announce that both Escape Pod and PodCastle are again finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine!
Congratulations to both teams:
- Escape Pod editors S.B. Divya, Mur Lafferty, and Valerie Valdes, assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney and Premee Mohamed, guest editor Brent C. Lambert, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart, audio producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht, and the entire Escape Pod team.
- PodCastle editors Jen R. Albert, C.L. Clark, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, and Eleanor R. Wood, assistant editors Sofia Barker and Summer Fletcher, host Matt Dovey, audio producer Peter Behravesh, and the entire PodCastle team.
We’re also thrilled to see both Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya return to the Best Editor Short Form category!
But there’s MORE!
- EA publishers and co-owners Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner have received their second nomination for THE FULL LID in the Best Fanzine category.
- EA alum Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki‘s novelette “O2 Arena” is a Best Novelette finalist, and is also a short for editor finalist!
- And EA alum Darcie Little Badger‘s YA novel A Snake Falls to Earth is a finalist for the Lodestar Award!
The complete list of finalists is available at the Chicon 8 website – congratulations to them all!
The Hugo Awards will be presented at the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon 8, on Sunday, September 4th in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Attending members are eligible to vote in the Hugo Awards (learn more about membership options).
Escape Artists and Titan Books are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the hit podcast of the same name. Featuring new and exclusive stories from today’s bestselling writers, the collection will publish October 2020 and is the latest addition to Titan Books’ award winning anthology list that includes editors such as George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Mark Morris, Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering, & Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan.