100 Year Starship has announced the finalists for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing. The award recognizes works that contribute to the excitement, knowledge, and understanding of interstellar space exploration and travel. The winners will be announced on August 12, during the 100 Year Starship Nexus in Los Angeles.
Previously Published Long-Form Fiction (40,000 words or more):
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
Dark Orbit, by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson
The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu
Arkwright, by Allen Steele
Previously Published Short-Form Fiction (between 1,000 and 40,000 words)
“Slow Bullets,” by Alastair Reynolds
“The Long Vigil,” by Rhett C. Bruno
“The Citadel of Weeping Pearls,” by Aliette de Bodard
“Wavefronts of History and Memory,” by David D. Levine
“The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred,” by Greg Egan
“Whom He May Devour,” by Alex Shvartsman
“Love and Relativity,” by Stewart C. Baker
Previously Published Nonfiction (between 1,000 and 40,000 words):
“A Terrestrial Planet Candidate in a Temperate Orbit Around Proxima,” by Guillem AngladaEscude, et al.
“A Science Critique of Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson,” by Stephen Baxter, James Benford, and Joseph Miller
Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet, by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne Dyson
“Let’s All Go to Mars,” by John Lanchester
“Our Worldship Broke!” by Jim Beall
Original Fiction (1,000-5,000 words):
“The Quest for New Cydonia,” by Russell Hemmell
“Luminosity,” by Adeene Denton
“Mission,” by Yoshifumi Kakiuchi
“Envoy,” by K. G. Jewell
“Sleeping Westward,” by Lorraine Schein
Original Non-Fiction (1,000-5,000 words):
“Motivatingly Plausible Ways to Reach the Stars,” by James Blodgett
“Microbots—The Seeds of Interstellar Civilization,” by Robert Buckalew
“An Anthropic Program for the Long-Term Survival of Humankind,” by Roberto Paura
“Terraforming Planets, Geoengineering Earth,” by James Fleming
