Jeffrey's World :: Botch Town by Jeffrey Ford
Botch Town
Published in:
• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)
 
Awards:
• Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (2007)
• Winner of the Locus Award for Best Novella (2007)
• Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (2007)
 
This is a novella of nearly 40,000 words and is the impetus for Jeffrey Ford's novel "The Shadow Year."