2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction

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<font color="yellow"> Attention all budding writers, from ESA Portal. </font><br /><br /><b><font size="4">A chance to imagine the future</font></b><br /><br /> <br />13 December 2004<br />Budding writers and artists have another opportunity to describe their vision of the future in space in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction competition. In 2003 the first competition received 104 entries from 36 countries.<br /> <br />Organised by the Swiss Maison d'Ailleurs (House of Elsewhere) and the OURS Foundation, under the auspices of ESA’s Technology Transfer and Promotion Office, the competition is designed to promote innovative ideas for future space technologies and to encourage young people’s interest in science and technology. <br />"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," said Arthur C. Clarke who together with another famous science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury, gave his name to the contest. Clarke and Bradbury have inspired generations of space scientists and explorers with their extraordinary science fiction stories. <br /><br />This year a specific theme has been selected: the space elevator. Writers and artists of all ages are invited to submit a short story of no more than 2500 words, a piece of artwork, or both, describing or depicting a space elevator and its technology. <br /><br />"For the first competition we received many very good stories," says ESA's David Raitt, one of the organisers and judges. "It was interesting to see the diversity of ideas these young writers demonstrated in their stories." <br /><br />Continual technological progress means that ideas that were once wild speculation may now be within the bounds of feasibility. Raitt adds, "maybe some of the visions we will receive in this competition, pure science fiction today, will become reality within the next 20 to 30 years". <br /> <br />Take the theme of this year’s contest: the 'space elevator'. The first idea could be said to date back to the Eng <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>

 

[achernaruk]

Working on my piece now <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> Cant wait to enter it!

 

[jmilsom]

Interesting. I may give it a go as well if I have time. I read Fountains of Paradise in July this year when I took a week long break in Sri Lanka (where the novel is set). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>