Would-Be Utopias: Five Books Featuring Arcologies and Domed Cities
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Roswell Award
Second place: “Biomimicry”, Ven Pillay
Third place: “Realtiger”, Susan Wachowski
Tomorrow Prize
Second place: “EP-1M Contamination”, Britney Cruz
Third place: “Returning Home”, Sofia Orduno
“Corn” by Sienna Koizumi won the 2021 Green Feather Award competition, and received $250. “Never Turn Your Back on the Water” by Courtney Watson won the 2021 Women Hold Up Half the Sky competition.
The Roswell Award short story competition is open to writers 16 years old and up. First place winner received $500 and access to the UCLA Extension writers’ program. Second prize was $250, and third prize was $100. Judges were Steven Barnes, Alyssa Bell, Wesley Chu, S.B. Divya, Rebecca Moesta, Philippe Mora, and Larry Niven.
And it burns, burns, burns. 17 May 2021
This week, while a lot of you will be (re)exploring the galaxy of the original Mass Effect trilogy, we thought it would be fun to revisit some of our own favourite video game planets. First up, Oli remembers the glory of Halo. Halo s a planet right? It isn t? Oh well, nobody said this stuff was simple - just ask Pluto.
Halo, the series, owes a lot more than just its name to its original setting. The name is a pretty good start, though, with its evocation of holy reverence, of refracted glory, of encircled perfection. It is the name the religious zealots of the Covenant have bestowed upon a mysterious celestial body: a ringworld orbiting a gas giant, and an artificial paradise harbouring a dark purpose. Its creators, a long-lost race known as the Forerunners, called it, rather prosaically, Installation 04.