2000 Short Story Contest
Home Page Visitors "Members Only" area "The Best of Times" anthology by members Books by Members -----Site Map-----  Visitor's Page  Member's Page  Rules  "Best of Times"  Books by Members  Library  A Vision for SFN  Critiquing Ideas  Unzip Programs	Entries in the 2000 Short Story Contest of the SFNovelist Writing Workshop On December 3, 2000, our annual Short Story Contest was held as a diversion from our normal writing as novelists. The workshop is devoted exclusively to hardsf novelists and this contest was a writing exercise only, not a regular part of the workshop. This year's theme: Time Travel. All the contributors are members of the SFNovelist writing workshop as of December, 2000. The following short stories are reprinted here by permission of the authors as a condition of the contest. However, each story is copyrighted by the respective author and copies cannot be distributed without the express permission of the authors. As sole judge of the contest, Victory Crayne selected the winners on the basis of: sticking to the contest theme, creativity, story writing skills demonstrated, including dialogue, characterization, setting, etc., and entertainment value. The stories submitted for this contest were, in the order of rank in the judging: "Whenever" by Gil C. Schmidt    (See Note 1 below)      First Place Winner "Old Fashioned Hospitality" by Richard Womack      Second Place Winner "Pan Asterides" by Bruce Davis "The Fool" by Don Muchow "Time" by Jeff Johnson "Are you ready to take the plunge, Jack?" by David Skinner "The No Spin Zone" by Jeff Parker "Oedipus Androgene" by Dan Turner "A Matter of Perception" by Marla Anderson "Swimming Against the Current" by John Koehler "A Week with Angel" by Kobus de Villiers "Lucid Dreams" by Jeff Robinson "Time Keeper" by Daniel Needles "Wide of the Mark" by Jonathan Parry-McCulloch "Stonehenge Unearthed" by Eric Vesely "Goodnight Kiss" by Hoyt Brown "Zeitfahren" by Peter Kelly Note 1: The stories above that are NOT available for viewing are included in the anthology of short stories "The Best of Times", available for purchase.