GISHWHES and 25 Stories
This is actually a combination of two posts originally posted in August of 2014: GISHWHES, the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, is run by Misha Collins each year to bring people worldwide together for fun, camaraderie, and to assist in his charitable efforts. More about them can be found at https://www.gishwhes.com/.
This year one of the tasks (apparently number 78 on a long list) was as follows: "Get a previously published Sci-Fi author to wri