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Pod and Planet EVE Fiction Contest - Winners Announced

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EVE-GAMES.NET
#21 - 2014-11-15 10:47:11 UTC
Good Luck to all you word-smiths! I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with this year Big smile

https://eve-games.net
Drackarn
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#22 - 2014-11-15 13:02:06 UTC
Hey Sam,

How about a new category for 2015?

"Eve Nerds with No Life" = 17,500 - 40,000 words :P

If you'd had this one this year I'd be sorted, but struggling currently with an entry with 5000 words. Go figure Shocked

http://sandciderandspaceships.blogspot.com/
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2014-11-15 14:35:23 UTC
Drackarn wrote:
Hey Sam,

How about a new category for 2015?

"Eve Nerds with No Life" = 17,500 - 40,000 words :P

If you'd had this one this year I'd be sorted, but struggling currently with an entry with 5000 words. Go figure Shocked

Ha! That would be great, actually. The only problem is the judging probably wouldn't be done until this time next year.

Where can we read the longer piece mate?
DomanarK
Multiplex Gaming
Tactical Narcotics Team
#24 - 2014-11-16 03:52:32 UTC
Glad to see this contest continue on again this year. One thing EvE have is a very committed and involved community, this is another good way for us to be involved in the fun that surrounds the game we all love (or love to hate).


Domanark
co-host Clueless Space Nerds Podcast

DomanarK co-host Clueless Space Nerds Podcast
Drackarn
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#25 - 2014-11-16 12:16:14 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:
Drackarn wrote:
Hey Sam,

How about a new category for 2015?

"Eve Nerds with No Life" = 17,500 - 40,000 words :P

If you'd had this one this year I'd be sorted, but struggling currently with an entry with 5000 words. Go figure Shocked

Ha! That would be great, actually. The only problem is the judging probably wouldn't be done until this time next year.

Where can we read the longer piece mate?


Yeah... didn't think about that. That's why YOU run these ;)

22k word piece I uploaded on Friday is here if you are interested - http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/SCAS/Val-Str.pdf

Awesome cover made by Rixx Javix - http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fxP8H3pZv3c/VGW91K9KwxI/AAAAAAAALKw/dTrsMDaJhgM/s1600/VS-Cover5.jpg

http://sandciderandspaceships.blogspot.com/
Kazicht Cixit
Seven Songs of Solace
#26 - 2014-11-17 13:02:03 UTC
I missed the second year but I've got something for you this year, Sam. Look forward to it!

Isn't it ironic?
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2014-11-18 00:39:40 UTC
Excellent, another vet writer checking in! Looks like we have a Clash of the (easy-going writer) Titans brewing up. And at the same time, entries from out in the field, from heretofore not known writing forces.... Might be good to polish up your pieces.

(Drackarn, I'll be linking the novella and that nice cover art on the contest webpage. You can revoke the permission you didn't give me for that, if you want.)
Drackarn
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#28 - 2014-11-19 12:35:38 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:


(Drackarn, I'll be linking the novella and that nice cover art on the contest webpage. You can revoke the permission you didn't give me for that, if you want.)


lol, no problem.

My three are queued up to publish on my blog whilst I'm on holiday for the next two weeks...

"The Wreck" - 8000 Suns - 21st
"Angels and Sinners" - Erm.... probably 'Day in the Life' although it may be humour, need to decide - 23rd
"Artificial Stupidity" - Humour - 28th

Apparently there is Wifi on the island so will steal the wife's tablet and submit them to the main site at the end of the month!

http://sandciderandspaceships.blogspot.com/
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2014-11-21 00:39:14 UTC
Four new stories in and linked on the Contest Entries page.

And-- contest judge Mike Azariah has announced that he'll again being giving out ships for any great stories that don't get a top prize. In other words, all stories are insured in case of philistinism or other wrong-headedness on the part of the judges. Smile Thanks Mike!
Drackarn
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#30 - 2014-11-22 06:07:19 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:
Four new stories in and linked on the Contest Entries page.


Any obvious reason the entry page won't load on an Android tablet running Chrome? All I get is a page of white. Great as a torch, not so great when trying to submit an entry :(

http://sandciderandspaceships.blogspot.com/
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#31 - 2014-11-22 14:18:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Telegram Sam
Drackarn wrote:
Telegram Sam wrote:
Four new stories in and linked on the Contest Entries page.


Any obvious reason the entry page won't load on an Android tablet running Chrome? All I get is a page of white. Great as a torch, not so great when trying to submit an entry :(

Hmm... I have no idea. It works with Chrome for Windows. I'll see if I can get a tech-capable friend's advice.

Edit: You can just EVEmail the story's link and info and I'll get it on the Contest Entries page.
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#32 - 2014-11-24 23:44:38 UTC
Our various donations handler Chribba says 6 bil isk in prize donations have come in. Very nice, thank you generous anonymous donor(s).

15 stories entered and posted so far, more coming in. Enjoy some reading on the Contest Entries page.
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2014-11-27 14:12:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Telegram Sam
1 bil ISK donation in from a new sponsor: Clueless Space Nerds podcast. Thank you generous patrons of the arts!

The prize pool is now 39 bil ISK. I have to redo (raise) the prize amounts in the various categories.
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#34 - 2014-11-28 22:51:10 UTC
Still five days to write! That's about 30 times more hours than it took Samuel Taylor Coleridge to write "Kubla Khan."
Drackarn
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#35 - 2014-11-29 03:46:35 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:

Hmm... I have no idea. It works with Chrome for Windows. I'll see if I can get a tech-capable friend's advice.

Edit: You can just EVEmail the story's link and info and I'll get it on the Contest Entries page.


Tried three devices. All say nope! Then again it could be the internet here. A lot is blocked I'd guess. Eve Mail sent. Thanks.

http://sandciderandspaceships.blogspot.com/
Nomistrav
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2014-12-01 13:56:06 UTC
Man, really hoping there's a lot more stories stacked up waiting to be delivered here in the next few days! Otherwise, we're going to have to start advertising at Fanfest to bolster numbers Blink

Got another story submitted for this year (missed last year's somehow) and this one is very personal to me for a variety of reasons. I've been debating this story topic for just under two years now when I started thinking about it for the Pod and Planet Contest for 2012. The only thing that held me back was my limited knowledge of the lore but I decided to take a chance and go for it anyway.

Here it is: Perhaps Reborn

So exciting! Good luck to everyone!

"As long as space endures,

as long as sentient beings exist,

until then, may I too remain

and dispel the miseries of the world."

~ Vremaja Idama
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#37 - 2014-12-02 00:29:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Telegram Sam
Yeah, we had kind of a hard time getting the word out to people this year. But the stories are coming in at an accelerating rate as we got close to closing time. You guys are true writers-- the best inspiration seems to be a deadline flying toward you. Smile

Great having both returning writers and new people in this one, by the way. Check out the Reading Bank for some really excellent works from previous years. Really surprisingly excellent, in my opinion.
Drackarn
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#38 - 2014-12-02 13:03:54 UTC
Its possible some are saving their entry to the last minute. Big prizes mean some might be taking thier serious internet spaceship fiction seriously Big smile

http://sandciderandspaceships.blogspot.com/
Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#39 - 2014-12-03 08:01:06 UTC
Rhavas
Noble Sentiments
Second Empire.
#40 - 2014-12-03 20:19:33 UTC
If you've ever wanted to try writing EVE Fiction and haven't written something for this contest, you are officially doing it wrong.

Only one entry from me this year, sadly. But here's mine!

Unchained

Author of Interstellar Privateer Shattered Planets, Wormholes and Game Commentary