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To terrify. Good evening. Come on in. Look, we've got a big show tonight, three tales by three masters,

so shake off the weather, grab something to drink, settle down, and I promise, I will not blather

this week.

One thing, and this will be it, I wanted to mention this last week.

The Stoker Award represents a compromise of sorts.

When the awards were instituted back in 1987, pretty much immediately after the HWA was incorporated, quite a few of the members were against the whole idea of giving awards. The feeling being that the organization was to have

been cooperative, not competitive. Had I been a member in 1987, I would have been on that side of the issue.

Writers face too damn much competition in the workplace to have to deal with any more of it at

home. So at all events, the matter was resolved by the decision to give the award that became the

Stokers, not for the best of whatever it happened to be, but for superior achievement in that form. Okay? All right. As mentioned, this is a big show. The first story tonight is George Saunders' home.

George Saunders is a best-selling American author.

He writes short stories, essays, novellas, children's books.

He's appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's McSweeney's, Gentleman's Quarterly.

His first story collection, Civil Warland, in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the

1996 Penn Hemingway Award. In 2006, Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2007, he won the

World Fantasy Award for his short story Com Com. His story collection

In Persuasion Nation was a finalist

for the Story Prize in 2007.

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