Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award 2021 Finalists Selected
Annual Contest Honors Stories Set in a Positive Future of Space Exploration
RIVERDALE, NEW YORK, March 15, 2021—The finalists for the 2021 Jim Baen Memorial Award competition have been announced. The Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest has been held annually since 2007 and is focused on stories of space exploration and discovery, with an optimistic spin on those activities for the human race. These are the ten finalists, in alphabetical order.
Gustavo Bondoni
Deborah L. Davitt
C. Stuart Hardwick
Scott Huggins
José Pablo Iriarte
William Paul Jones
Leigh Kimmel
Wendy Nikel
Kurt Pankau
Russell Pike
Judges for the award were celebrity author Les Johnson, and the editors of Baen Books. Stories were judged anonymously. The Jim Baen Memorial Award will be presented May 27, 2021 in a ceremony at the annual International Space Development Conference (held virtually this year.) The winner receives a distinctive award and professional publication of the story in June 2021 at the Baen.com web site.
“The National Space Society and Baen Books applaud the role that science fiction plays in advancing real science and have teamed up to sponsor this short fiction contest in memory of Jim Baen, the founder of Baen Books,” said William Ledbetter, contest administrator.
The contest occurs annually and looks for stories that demonstrate the positive aspects of space exploration and discovery. This year, in addition to the United States, entrants hailed from Sweden, the United Kingdom, Australia, Algeria, Spain, Morocco. France, Kazakhstan, India, Canada, Libya, Nigeria, Romania, Kosovo, Sudan, Netherlands, Tunisia, Bolivia, Germany, Iraq, Indonesia, Japan, and Switzerland.
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