If you'll forgive a little shameless self-promotion: hi! My name's Alex Clarkson, and I'm the winner of Pulp Idol 2007, a short story competition held by SFX Magazine and Gollancz Publishing.
My entry was titled 'Da Capo', and it's eleven different kinds of awesome. If you don't believe me, ask renowned sci-fi author Geoff Ryman, who said of 'Da Capo': "a surrealistic but touching fantasy idea, and a current contemporary subject given a terrifying new twist." Sweet Jesus! There's simply no feasible way of containing your excitement short of an icepick lobotomy!
'Da Capo', plus 11 runner-up stories, is being bound into mini-book format by the good people at SFX or possibly Gollancz, and it'll be given away free (yes, you heard right! FREE, by God!) with the issue of SFX Magazine. Of course, by this point you, faithful reader, are doubtless frothing at the mouth with anticipation, and therefore I need not remind you to buy two copies of the magazine. This will ensure that you have a replacement in the event that you thumb the first one to shreds, which you most assuredly will.
The standard of writing in last year's Pulp Idol was amazing (not quite as good as this year, of course, because I didn't enter last year): eleven succinct and divinely dinky sci-fi, fantasy and horror romps, each one a glorious shot of literary ambrosia injected directly into your retinae. I am confident that the quality of stories published this year will be such that looking directly at the text will rend the very flesh from your bones à la the end of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. If nothing else, it will almost certainly be the best eleven sci-fi short stories given away free on a magazine that you will read this year.
Cheers,
- Alex
My entry was titled 'Da Capo', and it's eleven different kinds of awesome. If you don't believe me, ask renowned sci-fi author Geoff Ryman, who said of 'Da Capo': "a surrealistic but touching fantasy idea, and a current contemporary subject given a terrifying new twist." Sweet Jesus! There's simply no feasible way of containing your excitement short of an icepick lobotomy!
'Da Capo', plus 11 runner-up stories, is being bound into mini-book format by the good people at SFX or possibly Gollancz, and it'll be given away free (yes, you heard right! FREE, by God!) with the issue of SFX Magazine. Of course, by this point you, faithful reader, are doubtless frothing at the mouth with anticipation, and therefore I need not remind you to buy two copies of the magazine. This will ensure that you have a replacement in the event that you thumb the first one to shreds, which you most assuredly will.
The standard of writing in last year's Pulp Idol was amazing (not quite as good as this year, of course, because I didn't enter last year): eleven succinct and divinely dinky sci-fi, fantasy and horror romps, each one a glorious shot of literary ambrosia injected directly into your retinae. I am confident that the quality of stories published this year will be such that looking directly at the text will rend the very flesh from your bones à la the end of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. If nothing else, it will almost certainly be the best eleven sci-fi short stories given away free on a magazine that you will read this year.
Cheers,
- Alex
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So, what next for our erstwhile champion?
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