Contest Judge: Here’s an H. G. Wells writing contest that will pay you £1,000 if you win.
Writers: All right! Sign me up!
Contest Judge: But there’s a catch.
Writers: What?
Contest Judge: You have to write your story out by hand.
Writers: Pass.
No way could I enter this contest; their attempts to judge my entry would no doubt come out something like this:
(Hat tip: Michael Walsh’s Facebook feed. The “Generation Eloi” tag comes from the afterword to Steven R. Boyett’s Elegey Beach, which I hope to have a review of sometime in the near future.)
