NovelBooks, Inc.
www.novelbooksinc.com
NovelBooks, Inc. presents a contest for science fiction writers!
(contestto published and unpublished authors)
Due to unforeseen circumstance, NBI has decided
to cancel the science fiction contest; entrants will have their fees
refunded as soon as possible.
All of us at NBI apologize for the inconvenience, and we wish you the
best of luck in placing your excellent stories elsewhere.
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Are you a fan of Jack Williamson, E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, A.E. Van Vogt, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and other great
Golden Age science fiction writers? Do you have a fantastic idea for a rousing, exciting, adventurous sf short story? Or perhaps a
thoughtful, intuitive, contemplative story about mankind’s first contact with other intelligent life forms?
Then our new contest might be just up your space station.
That’s right: space station. Our contest is for the best science fiction short story set in/around/on/near a space station.
Here are the guidelines:
1. The setting must be on/in/near a space station.
2. The station does not have to be orbiting our own Earth or be in our solar system.
3. No copyrighted worlds [for example, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5]
4. No gratuitous sex. While romance is acceptable, we’re not looking for porn, and will return any submission at once if our judges consider the story so.
5. 5K words or less.
Contest will be judged by published authors and/or professional editors.
Your entry should be sent as an attachment in rtf, 12 pt Times New Roman, single spaced. Be sure to provide clear contact
information [email, snail mail, and phone] in both your email and your attached story. Submit to:
contest
The top three winners receive cash prizes [$100 for 1st place, $75 for 2nd, $50 for 3rd], certificates of merit, and publication in print
and electronic formats in the next NBI contest anthology--and the top scoring story with be the title of the anthology. The ten
honorable mentions receive publication in both formats of the anthology, certificates of merit, and selected prizes from our
NBI Cyber Shop with the anthology cover art.
Send Entry Form & Entry Fee - $25 in check or money order, made payable to NovelBooks, Inc. to:
NovelBooks, Inc.
PO Box 661
Douglas, MA 01516
Or if you wish, you may make use of
PayPal
or our
NBI shopping cart.
If the pay online, the Entry Form still needs to be mailed to the above address.
You may enter more than one story, but each will require a separate entry fee and entry form.
Note: no story will be considered/judged until the entry fee is paid.
Submissions will be accepted May 1 through midnight, July 31. However, the total number of entries is limited to 60, so the cut off
date is subject to change.
Projected publication date [tentative at present] for the anthology is Halloween, 2002.
For more information, contact: gail
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