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The Scian Sci-Fi contest

Long time readers of this blog (yes, yes, there are such people too) would know of the Scian Wiki and the Scian Melt. Selva, a long-time blog friend had opened up a great world of science for me, ages back. But for various reasons, the Wiki had to be closed. But you can’t put a good Selva down, for long. He’s now drummed up a special contest, for you.

Announcing the Scian Science Fiction Contest

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -Douglas Adams

It is my hope that a little dose of science fiction short stories would help balance that skewed perspective of reality. A more immediate and pragmatic hope is that, at the end of the day, we would have science fiction short stories to read, and that, those stories would relate to the culture and times we have been part of for most of our lives. While science fiction is very much about science and fiction, it is a lot about perspective too. At its core, science fiction is about the human experience and our attempts to make sense of our place in the scheme of things.

It gives me great pleasure and a soon-to-be lighter wallet to announce the very first Science Fiction Short Story Contest at TheScian.com. This will be a yearly event. If we get sponsors we may make it more frequent and hopefully add more contest categories (I have a Software contest in mind).

Go on then, let rip.