gerisullivan | Yep, it's a thrill...

For those of you who noticed that extra big smile on my face on Sunday of Lunacon, I can now reveal the source of my added wattage that day: Science-Fiction Five-Yearly has been nominated for a Hugo in the Best Fanzine category!

The ballots are in the mail, and the nominees are online thanks to Making Light.

fringefaan and I are delighted by SFFY's nomination. We thank the nominators as well as the writers and artists who collaborated with us last year. We also deeply appreciated the Hugo Administrator's understanding of just how the nomination news would hit us. Joyce Hooper's notification letter began:

] After completing the counting of this year's 409 Hugo and John W. Campbell Award
] nominating ballots and I am very pleased to tell you that you that Science-Fiction
] Five-Yearly has been nominated in the Best Fanzine category.
]
] I’m sure the loss of Lee makes this nomination bitter sweet for you both, I hope that
] you will accept this nomination and I await your response.

Yes, it's bittersweet, indeed. My reading is that LeeH would have been utterly croggled by the news, and deeply pleased, too.

fringefaan and I certainly are!

Many thanks for the congratulations already in from

tnh,

lauriemann,

debgeisler, and

smofbabe. I send my own congratulations to the truly fine company SFFY is in on the entire Hugo ballot and especially to our fellow fanzine nominees:

fishlifter for Banana Wings, Guy Lillian, III for Challenger,

johnnyeponymous for The Drink Tank, and the entire cabal --

drplokta,

flickgc,

bohemiancoast,

malwen,

miramon,

eleyan, and

frostfox for PLOKTA.

A very limited number of copies of Science-Fiction Five-Yearly are available upon request -- we're down to a couple dozen remaining. Fortunately, SFFY is also online at eFanzines.com and at the FANAC website. In addition to PDFs I've made,

jcbemis scanned and typed all of the issues archived on the FANAC site.

It is an honor, such an honor, to be nominated. Big fun, too!