Grand Prize is better than First Prize, isn't it?
Strange New Worlds 2016 available for pre-order
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I would say the Grand Prize is better than First Prize if there were different stages in a competition. For example the first prize winners from different regions went into a grand final and won the Grand Prize. Like on Glee where they won First Prize in Regionals, went to Sectionals and National and the latter was the Grand Prize.
Went and found the original Startrek.com post about competition and it mentions that additionally the First Prize winners win the book deal:
http://www.startrek.com/article/strange-new-worlds-fan-fiction-contest-returns-for-2016
Suggests that they too thought the first prize winners would be in the anthology.
Went and found the original Startrek.com post about competition and it mentions that additionally the First Prize winners win the book deal:
http://www.startrek.com/article/strange-new-worlds-fan-fiction-contest-returns-for-2016
Suggests that they too thought the first prize winners would be in the anthology.
That's the exception rather than the rule for SNW stories. It's happened a few times, but that's out of a couple hundred stories.
Someone needs to invite Various to start posting at TrekBBS with all the other authors.
Wow, they are very prolific (and they draw, too!): http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Various/16269589/books
(My favourite title out of those is probably If it Fits, I Sits: Cats in Awkward Places.
)Sadly, it turns out they have published Star Trek work professionally before, so they should have been disqualified from this contest:
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Day-Of-Honor-Omnibus/Various/Star-Trek/9780743455909
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Captains-Table/Various/Star-Trek/9780743406703
http://www.simonandschuster.com/boo...-Saga/Various/Star-Trek-Voyager/9780671034474
Wow. I would have thought that Pocket Books would have noticed that Various was such a common contributor to the Trek universe... But maybe it's just a coincidence. Various is a common name in some places of the world.Wow, they are very prolific (and they draw, too!): http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Various/16269589/books
(My favourite title out of those is probably If it Fits, I Sits: Cats in Awkward Places.
Sadly, it turns out they have published Star Trek work professionally before, so they should have been disqualified from this contest:
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Day-Of-Honor-Omnibus/Various/Star-Trek/9780743455909
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Captains-Table/Various/Star-Trek/9780743406703
http://www.simonandschuster.com/boo...-Saga/Various/Star-Trek-Voyager/9780671034474
Go on then.
How hard do you think it is?
Never done it before.
Use the Spoilers tag in the title, make sure the title's called "Review Thread" at the end, and the option for setting up a poll will be given as part of posting the thread. Your poll options are Outstanding, Above Average, Average, Below Average, Poor.
Good luck
No physical edition = no sale, as far as I'm concerned. I keep my Star Trek books together on a very large bookshelf, and have no plans to stash my Kindle there.
Sorry - didn't describe it properly - the Spoiler tag for threads is selected from the drop down list at the left of the title box. I've fixed it for you.The Spoiler tagging didn't quite work.
Hope it's okay to revive this old thread, even though I only have a question.
Namely, did anything ever come of the two first place winner's stories? It seems insane that they'd win the prize but that nothing would ever become of their stories. Were those stories being held for another theoretical anthology?
Namely, did anything ever come of the two first place winner's stories? It seems insane that they'd win the prize but that nothing would ever become of their stories. Were those stories being held for another theoretical anthology?
