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For many years, the broader SFF community was relatively convinced that Jim Theis, the credited author of EoA, didn’t exist at all. They made up stories about how he must have actually been satirical, and one dominant theory was that students at a Clarion workshop wrote it as an experiment in deliberately bad fiction. But after decades of theorizing and speculation, Jim Theis’ identity was ultimately discovered: Jim Theis had been a 16-year-old kid. 2/