The 2007 Scientific Indian Story Contest - first prize
Selvakumar Ganesan runs a website and blog called The Scientific Indian. He also conducts an annual science fiction writing competition. He has kindly chosen my story, called A Story in Blue, for the first prize.It came as an unexpected surprise because I had never written anything of this length before, and don't consider myself well-equipped to write science fiction. So it was just for a lark that I sent in this entry. Also, I have never ever won any real prizes for my creative writing, so this was great news :-). Congratulations are also in order to the joint 2nd prize winners.
I have been thinking a lot about religion from a personal point of view recently, and this was a nice way to explore some of my mental threads. If you happen to read the story and have something to say, please do write to me.
5 comments:
Congratulations! Excellent story. Liked the subtle reference to the Dashavatar - Blue Gods playing their flutes of peace.
You know which side of argument/question I stand. If have not already, see Daniel Dennett's attempts to explain some of questions raised in your story in his book - "Breaking the Spell".
Congratulations. Liked story, but not immensely. Some of your other stuff is much better.
All our comments and fan following are not "real prizes"?
You need some media training.
Hirak: thanks. I'm on your side of the argument anyway.
Abhishek: thanks. I know this is not that great.
Harish: I do. But sometimes the promise of cash is more potent that praise :-)
Ramanand, liked the way the story flows. The michael crichton/tom clancy type parallel flows with timelines :) .
and the subtle Foundation influence especially with the names and titles.
commendable effort, and quite pertinent in current scenario, one could even juxtapose a pre-nuclear pakistan and india in this scenario. wherein pak goes to war with india to deflect off domestic religious strife.
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