Yesterday morning I woke up to the news that “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N.K. Jemisin was shortlisted for the Million Writers Award.
Today I woke up to the news that “Spar” by Kij Johnson has won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
I hasten to add that I have absolutely nothing to do with selecting the fiction for Clarkesworld. I can take no credit for these award successes. But that doesn’t stop me being enormously proud. Huge congratulations to Nora and Kij.
“Best Shirt Story”? I’m guessing this is a typo. Unless, of course, the Nebulas really do have a special category for shirt-related fiction. Including, presumably, such prestigious former winners as Asimov’s “I, Buttondown” and PKD’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Polo-Necks?”
Nope, actually there’s a whole Nebula category dedicated to stories about Hawaiian shirts. Charles Brown started it, and Jay Lake has been a regular winner.