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EUSciFi Competition First Prize: Like Killing Mice

Monday, March 1st, 2010 Posted in Competition | No Comments »

The winner of the first prize in our EUSciFi competition. This story will be published in the upcoming issue of EUSci. Like Killing Mice by Adam Wilson I, Benedict Michael Matthew Hume, Inspector, first class, of the XIXth Moral Enforcement Unit and Inquisition (Electronic Atrocities Division), confirm before almighty God that what follows is a [...]

EUSciFi Competition Second Prize: Robo-Rebus

Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Posted in Competition | No Comments »

The winner of the second prize in our EUSciFi competition. Robo-Rebus by Emily Pritchard The turn-out for the Mark III was less impressive than for the previous models. At the Mark I unveiling the First Minister had given a speech, celebrating a triumph of science in the field of policing. After that disaster, the Mark [...]

EUSciFi Competition Runner-Up: Technology

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Competition | No Comments »

One of the three runners-up in our EUSciFi competition. Technology by Eleanor Horn Old people just can’t work new technology. It’s a fact of life. No matter who the old person is and no matter what contraption they are trying to manipulate, the result is always the same. A worn mind leads to a lack [...]

EUSciFi Competition Runner-Up: Connect

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Competition | 1 Comment »

One of the three runners-up in our EUSciFi competition. Connect by Ever Dundas Rease couldn’t bring herself to move, although it was unbearably hot. She sat where she had collapsed after getting out of bed, staring at the mess from the night before; empty wine glasses giving off a stale stench, half-eaten food nestled in [...]

EUSciFi Competition Runner-Up: Yesterday Spex

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Competition | No Comments »

One of the three runners-up in our EUSciFi competition. Yesterday Spex by David Baillie ‘You have ViFi here?’ The big buzz of ’09 was fast becoming frowned-upon in Edinburgh. Last year the ViFi™ logo in your window was the quickest and easiest way to guarantee a busy, and therefore profitable, stimShop or beerBar, regardless of [...]