
the Keiichi Maebara award
for being held hostage by card sharks

with award art by tom

for being held hostage by card sharks

for peering behind the scenes of an unfinished video game world

for witnessing the world turn to ruin in real time

for a recursive audience to a recursive fiction

for unleashing innate biological power of total self-transformation

for a lone rider struggling to find meaning beyond the road

for a comprehensive manual for servicing the machine

for unwittingly stumbling into sudden and unexpected entombment

for unusual consequences of an empathic connection

for new forms of life born from the fusion of bugs

for a mysterious meddler who refuses to die

for a mystery on an abandoned island, shrouded in the fog of forgotten memories