On June 1st, we’re launching our next contest with Nerdist in our year-long contest series...and the theme is "Video Games"! We’re looking for stories with video games at their core, in the vein of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One and Neal Stephenson’s Reamde.
Check out the contest page for more info, and in the meantime, please share with friends and those you know working on stories within this genre. We recommend launching drafts now so you can hit the ground running come June 1st!
The rules are the same as other contests, and we’re looking for the top three books in terms of unique reader pre-order counts within the specified time period. For this contest that means any pre-order placed between June 1, 2016, and July 15, 2016. All three books will be published by Inkshares even if they haven’t reached their pre-order goal. We’re even giving away a special prize to the author with the most unique pre-orders — their very ownOculus Rift!
We hope you have so much fun with this and we can’t wait to see amazing submissions start pouring through!
"After a surveillance culture has taken control over the galaxy, it’s up to an eclectic group of misfits from disparate corners of the cosmos to rediscover the forbidden concepts of life, love and liberty."
It’s 7:48 in the morning, I haven’t even had my coffee yet, and I’m watching as they’re hauling my body out of the river. I’m an Upload, a clone. They’ve mapped my genes, replicated my DNA, made a copy, and now I need to solve my own murder.
