In addition to work authored by humans, it also considers the literary output of artificial intelligence software. And the results of the latter are--surprisingly and scarily--not that bad. Researchers from Japan's Future University Hakodate submitted a short story called "The Day a Computer Writes a Novel," or "Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi," and it comes across as something a human might have written (though not perhaps a human called Jonathan Franzen): I writhed with joy, which I experienced for the first time, and kept writing with excitement. The day a computer wrote a novel. The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans. The prize was created in the memory of Hoshi Shinichi, a science fiction writer whose novels include The Whimsical Robot.