F&SF Magazine... again :)
At the end of last year, I won a competition in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine for Best Pickup Line ("Is your name Cthulhu? Because your looks are driving me insane!").
Lightning's struck twice, this time for their competition to create a F/SF "Reality Show."
My winning entry can be found here:
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2011/competition1105.htm
The best part is that Gordon Van Gelder actually remembered me from last time. :)
I had submitted other entries as well, and thought I'd share:
EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOMEWORLD EDITION
The human race gets a free off-world vacation while Martians, Triffids, the Fithp, the Daleks, et al compete to remake the earth. The terrans will hardly recognize their xenoformed planet when they are finally allowed to return (to their option of slave pens, breeding camps, or livestock cages).
LAST ZOMBIE STANDING
It's head-to-head undead! Zombie teams must survive grueling tests like the Relay Race shootout, a booby-trapped Mall, and the ominously titled "Sarah Palin Challenge". First season will showcase the slow zombies of Team Romero, quick zombies of Team 28 Days Later, and dancing zombies of Team Thriller.
THE ETHEREAL LIFE
Featuring the world’s first intangible cast. Sequestered in a haunted mansion, contestants must confront prejudice, romance, exorcisms, and each other. Cast includes Casper, Drop Dead Fred, the couple from Beetlejuice, Kitty Pride, the ghost of Christmas Future, Slimer, and the creepy girl from The Ring. The competition can’t touch this!
BIG BROTHER - GORMENGHAST
Twelve strangers. A hundred cameras. One freaky castle. The Lords of Groan open their home--from the Hall of Spiders to the wine cellar labyrinth--for the hit voyeuristic series. This season has it all: infighting, jealousy, evisceration by death owls. Watch housemates backstab each other, literally, just to be evicted!
MITHRIL CHEF
Middle-earth's finest cooks must improvise multi-course meals using secret ingredients like Farmer Maggot's mushrooms, Ent-draughts, and Balrog. Winners are determined by enthusiastic Hobbit judges. Highlights this season include the perfect Lembas bread pudding and a tiered birthday cake replica of Minas Tirith (topped with an immolated Denethor candle)!
Lightning's struck twice, this time for their competition to create a F/SF "Reality Show."
My winning entry can be found here:
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2011/competition1105.htm
The best part is that Gordon Van Gelder actually remembered me from last time. :)
I had submitted other entries as well, and thought I'd share:
EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOMEWORLD EDITION
The human race gets a free off-world vacation while Martians, Triffids, the Fithp, the Daleks, et al compete to remake the earth. The terrans will hardly recognize their xenoformed planet when they are finally allowed to return (to their option of slave pens, breeding camps, or livestock cages).
LAST ZOMBIE STANDING
It's head-to-head undead! Zombie teams must survive grueling tests like the Relay Race shootout, a booby-trapped Mall, and the ominously titled "Sarah Palin Challenge". First season will showcase the slow zombies of Team Romero, quick zombies of Team 28 Days Later, and dancing zombies of Team Thriller.
THE ETHEREAL LIFE
Featuring the world’s first intangible cast. Sequestered in a haunted mansion, contestants must confront prejudice, romance, exorcisms, and each other. Cast includes Casper, Drop Dead Fred, the couple from Beetlejuice, Kitty Pride, the ghost of Christmas Future, Slimer, and the creepy girl from The Ring. The competition can’t touch this!
BIG BROTHER - GORMENGHAST
Twelve strangers. A hundred cameras. One freaky castle. The Lords of Groan open their home--from the Hall of Spiders to the wine cellar labyrinth--for the hit voyeuristic series. This season has it all: infighting, jealousy, evisceration by death owls. Watch housemates backstab each other, literally, just to be evicted!
MITHRIL CHEF
Middle-earth's finest cooks must improvise multi-course meals using secret ingredients like Farmer Maggot's mushrooms, Ent-draughts, and Balrog. Winners are determined by enthusiastic Hobbit judges. Highlights this season include the perfect Lembas bread pudding and a tiered birthday cake replica of Minas Tirith (topped with an immolated Denethor candle)!