I’m pleased to be nominated for a Hugo award for this story. A number of you have asked how to get a copy. Asimov’s magazine has just posted this one and their other Hugo nominees on their website. You can find “Recovering Apollo 8″ here .

While you’re at the site, you might want to subscribe to Asimovs. It’s one of the best. Fiction magazines can always use the support. You can subscribe here .

If you would like to vote for the story, here’s how:

Voting happens at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Denver. Members of the 2008 convention will have until July 1, 2008, to vote on this ballot. Winners will be announced and trophies awarded at Denvention’s Hugo Awards Ceremony, Saturday, August 9.

The voting is conducted by mail and online. Ballots will be included in the next Progress Report to be mailed by the Convention in early April. The online ballot will be available at www.Denvention.org/hugos in the near future. Only people who are members Denvention 3 can vote, but memberships may be obtained at the same site. A supporting membership is $50US and an attending membership is $200US. Either membership can vote on the Hugos, but only an attending membership will have the fun of being in Denver for 5 days of non-stop science fiction.

Update on April 26, 2008

I just found out that “Recovering Apollo 8″ is nominated for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History (Short Form), which will also be given out at Worldcon. This is a juried award, so there is no voting.

Here’s the press release:

The judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History are pleased to
announce this year’s nominees. The Sidewise Awards will be presented at
this year’s worldcon, Denvention 3, the week of August 6-10. The awards
were founded in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history of the year.

Best Short Form:

Elizabeth Bear, Les Innocents/Lumiere (in New Amsterdam, Subterranean Press)
Michael Flynn, Quaestiones Super Caelo Et Mundo (in Analog, 7/07)
Matthew Johnson, Public Safety (in Asimov’s, 3/07)
Jess Nevins, An Alternate History of Chinese Science Fiction (in No Fear
of the Future, May 17, 2007)
Chris Roberson, Metal Dragon Year (in Interzone, 12/07)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Recovering Apollo 8 (in Asimov’s, 2/07)
John Scalzi, Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search
Results (in Subterranean Magazine, Winter 2007)

Best Long Form
Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (HarperCollins)
Robert Conroy, 1945: A Novel (Ballantine Books)
Mary Gentle, Ilario (The Lion’s Eye and The Stone Golem) (Eos)
Jay Lake, Mainspring (Tor Books)
Sophia McDougall, Rome Burning (Orion)
Jo Walton, Ha’penny (Tor Books)

Congratulations to all the nominees

http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise

April 27, 2008 Update

I’ve been sitting on this news since February, and now I can finally release it. “Recovering Apollo 8″ has won the Asimov’s Readers Choice Award for Best Novella. The award is voted on by the readers of the magazine. They have a list of all the stories published in the year, and they choose. I’m very pleased to receive the award.

Thanks to everyone who voted! It means a lot to me.