“The Beautiful Gears of Dying,” by Sandra Kasturi, one of the stories in Aurora-winning The Sum of Us, won the Sunburst for Best Short Story. The jury commented: “In a strong field with many outstanding stories, Sandra Kasturi’s “The Beautiful Gears of Dying” did for the jury what speculative writing does best, by using a fantastic/technological trope to explore the complexity of human relations and the texture of human life. Kasturi’s story is linguistically complex, economical, emotionally intense, and yet accessible, and it provokes recurring thoughts about our human predicaments.”