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Chain Reaction
I submitted this 350-word story to the New Scientist's 2010 flash fiction contest, Forgotten Futures. I found out a couple of weeks ago that I made the shortlist from among over 700 entries, which was a thrill.
An even bigger thrill was the fact that Neil Gaiman would be reading the shortlist and picking the winner and two runners-up. I didn't make the top three, but I was still pleased! The story will be published on on New Scientist's CultureLab blog at some point during the fortnight beginning 20th January.
An even bigger thrill was the fact that Neil Gaiman would be reading the shortlist and picking the winner and two runners-up. I didn't make the top three, but I was still pleased! The story will be published on on New Scientist's CultureLab blog at some point during the fortnight beginning 20th January.
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Golden indeed. Let us know when your feet get back on the ground.
Neil Gaiman, best-selling and award-winning author of American Gods, Coraline, Sandman and many more comics and books, selected the winner and two runners-up from a shortlist of 10.
"I really enjoyed reading the shortlist, and was impressed by the way people folded huge stories, even things that felt like novels, into 350 words or less," says Gaiman, "just as I was impressed by the sense of wonder that the writers generated, and the clash between the way we see the world now and the ways we've used to make sense of the world in the past.
"I picked Atomic Dreams as the winner, mostly for its sense of compression: a story told in headlines, a world that we don't live in that shows us our own world through a mirror. Of the runners-up, my favourites were Starfall (which managed to tell a huge end-of-everything story in personal terms) and Gaius Secundus ER (which managed to be both funny and accurate in its dead medicine, and was just the right length). "My congratulations to the finalists. You all have a great alternate past ahead of you."
We'll be publishing the winner, two runners-up and seven shortlisted entries on CultureLab over the next couple of weeks.
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