No Place to Hide Cops Astounding Outpost “Editors Choice”
Woo hoo! We may recall from December 7, et al., that voting was ending for best story in Astounding Outpost’s NEURAL NETS, UPLINKS, AND WETWARE anthology, in which my story “No Place to Hide” appears. Results are now in! 0riginally published in the long-dead pro magazine SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW in 1991, “No Place to Hide” has ended up in a hotly contested tie for eighth place. But wait — there’s more.
As it happens, in addition to first, second, and third places, there was one other award to be given. Or, to quote from the guidelines: In addition, one story picked by the editors, not voters, will receive 15 dollars via paypal and a custom T-shirt from the Astounding Outpost. This is the equivalent of the second voted-on prize in terms of loot received (in more recent anthologies, a print copy will replace the T-shirt, but NEURAL NETS is the last [image error]that’s available in Kindle form only) and, as it turns out, it seems there’s a dance in the old dame yet.* Or, to quote again from the source: After a very rough editorial battle, we can announce the WINNERS OF Neural Nets, Uplinks, and Wetware. First place goes to Burner, second goes to Catching Cameron Ellis, third to Never Lonely. The editors choice goes to No Place to Hide. Congratulations to the Neural Nets winners. To check out the site for oneself, press here (then, to find the stories as well, press “Astounding Stories” at the upper right, but be prepared to scroll way, way down since the stories to be in the next anthology are in the process of being added).
One might then add that all stories, including the winners, can be read in the Kindle edition of NEURAL NETS, UPLINKS, AND WETWARE which may be purchased by clicking here. (And also all writers receive a royalty on copies sold, so if enough of you . . . well, it does add up.)
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*”a dance. . . ,” incidentally, is actually a quote that I couldn’t resist from ARCHY AND MEHITABEL (1927), one of a series of books by Don Marquis. The specific poem is “The Song of Mehitabel,” the memoir of a somewhat disreputable alley cat (Triana, take note!) as transcribed by her friend, the cockroach Archy, and may be read by pressing here.
tourjours gai tourjours gai
