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Okey dokey, I just heard back from the Dell Magazines Award, a contest run by the publishers of Asimov's and judged by Sheila Williams, one of the top editors in the SF field. Past winners include Cory Doctorow, now a NYT bestseller, my friend David Barr Kirtley, a successful short fiction writer, and more. Winners - and runners-up - get flown to the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Last time I placed I spent the weekend hanging with a delightfully [redacted] Joe Haldeman and such luminaries as Ted Chiang, Rob Sawyer, Vernor Vinge, R. Scott Bakker, Tim Zahn and more.
I have a history with these awards! The second-to-last time I applied I took an honorable mention with a story about a PTSD-afflicted giant mech pilot endlessly reliving his own war experience in the confines of his own VR-augmented skull, and the travails of the counselor networked in to pull him out. Last time I applied I got second place with a story about a gang of AI hunters who stumble upon a group of virtual human infants raised in total sensory deprivation. This was my last year of eligibility so I knew that I had to equip my most formidable neuroprosaic turbines and risk complete synaptic burnout in order to finally reach THE TOP
This time around I am happy to report that a story I posted for conference here on HLP, The Immaculate Conception of Private Sunilben, took home first. It will be published by Asimov's (giving me my first professional credit). Better yet, the awards were completely swept by my fellow graduates of the Alpha workshop, establishing us as the coolest cats in town. They are all young women because men can't write for **** any more. On that note I'm off for my sex change.
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*for values of greatest writer parametrized by greatest writers who submitted manuscripts written during time in college to the Dell Magazines Award in the year 2010
