While her husband is asleep on the couch, renowned science fiction writer C. L. Moore receives a visitor from the future who presents her with a well-deserved award that she never received while alive.
She’s thirty-six but has felt the same inside since fifteen, when she’d read a pulp magazine and knew with absolute certainty what she wanted to do with her life.

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  1. “Grandmaster” by Jay O’Connell, in Analog, March/April 2017.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jay O’Connell