So you know how I was all mysterious and stuff the other day? \"Mysterious thing I can't talk about yet #1\" is now public information:<\/p>\n
Ben Rosenbaum's story \"The House Beyond Your Sky<\/a>,\" which Strange Horizons<\/cite> published last September, is on the 2007 Hugo ballot<\/a>! (Ben has an excellent lolcats photo about it<\/a>.)<\/p>\n We are, of course, totally thrilled. This is the first time anything we've published has appeared on a Hugo ballot. (The magazine as a whole was nominated for a special \"Best Web Site\" Hugo in both of the years when that award was given, but that's not the same as having our fiction on the ballot.)<\/p>\n Being able to publicly mention this is an excellent birthday present--I've been obsessively checking a couple of times a day, impatiently waiting for the ballot to appear so I could talk about it. (Turns out that if I'd been checking the right places, I would have known that the Nielsen Haydens posted the ballot<\/a> last night.) Thanks to the Hugo committee for releasing the ballot this week, and to Locus Online<\/cite> (and others) for publishing it! It doesn't appear to be on the official WorldCon website<\/a> yet, but I'm sure it will be soon.<\/p>\n Anyway, many congratulations to Ben, and thanks again for sending us the story.<\/p>\n