100 Year Starship (100YSS) recently named the finalists in the 2016-17 Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing. Alastair Reynolds’ SLOW BULLETS garnered a nomination for Previously Published Short-Form Fiction.

The Canopus Award is a writing prize recognizing the finest fiction and non-fiction works that engage broad audiences and enhance the understanding excitement, and knowledge of interstellar space exploration and travel.

Winners will be announced and honored at the 100YSS Nexus on Saturday, August 12 in Los Angeles.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Previously Published
Long-Form Fiction (40,000 words or more)

• THE LONG WAY TO A
  SMALL, ANGRY PLANET by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager)
• DARK ORBIT by
  Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor)
• SEVENEVES by Neal
  Stephenson (HarperCollins)
• THE THREE-BODY
  PROBLEM by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu (Tor)
• ARKWRIGHT by Allen
  Steele (Tor)

Previously Published
Short-Form Fiction (between 1,000 and 40,000 words)

• “Slow Bullets”
  by Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon Publications)
• “This Long Vigil”
  by Rhett C. Bruno (Perihelion)
• “The Citadel of
  Weeping Pearls” by Aliette de Bodard (ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION)
• “Wavefronts of
  History and Memory” by David D. Levine (ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND
  FACT)
• “The Four
  Thousand, The Eight Hundred” by Greg Egan (Originally by ASIMOV’S
  SCIENCE FICTION; Reprinted by Subterranean Press)
• “Whom He May
  Devour” by Alex Shvartsman (Nautilus)
• “Love and
  Relativity” by Stewart C. Baker (Originally by NATURE PHYSICS;
  Reprinted by NATURE FUTURES; Reprinted by FLASH FICTION ONLINE)

Previously Published
Nonfiction (between 1,000 and 40,000 words)

• “A Terrestrial
  Planet Candidate in a Temperate Orbit Around Proxima” by Guillem
  Anglada-Escude, et al. (NATURE)
• “A Science
  Critique of Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson” by Stephen Baxter,
  James Benford, and Joseph Miller (Centauri Dreams)
• WELCOME TO MARS:
  MAKING A HOME ON THE RED PLANET by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne Dyson
  (National Geographic)
• “Let’s All Go to
  Mars” by John Lanchester (LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS)
• “Our Worldship
  Broke!” by Jim Beall (Baen Books)

Original Fiction
(1,000-5,000 words)

• “The Quest for New
  Cydonia” by Russell Hemmell
• “Sleeping
  Westward” by Lorraine Schein
• “Luminosity” by
  Adeene Denton
• “Mission” by
  Yoshifumi Kakiuchi
• “Envoy” by K. G.
  Jewell

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

Original College
Writing (1,000-5,000 words)

• “A Kingdom of
  Ends” by Ryan Burgess
• “Ethics in Space”
  by Greg Becker

For more info about SLOW BULLETS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Thomas Canty

Design by Elizabeth Story