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If you're ever stuck flying an Apollo Program module, you'd better hope you're wearing this necktie, which is silk-screened with schematics from NASA's newly declassified Apollo Operations Handbook. It's just one entrant in NASA's new contest, in partnership with Etsy.com. More »
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Angry Robot Books is having its U.S. launch today, and we're ready to announce the three lucky souls who are each receiving a full set of a half-dozen Angry Robot titles, including Lauren Beukes' Moxyland. More »
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Britain's most exciting new science fiction publisher, Angry Robot, is launching in the U.S. next week — and you can win all six of their U.S. launch titles. All you have to do is answer one simple question. More »
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities will catalog many rare and peculiar objects — but it seems like it'll be such an artifact in its own right. The book boasts a veritable bestiary of great authors... possibly including you! More »
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There can be only one fan-favorite character from the Highlander TV series: Methos, played by Peter Wingfield. And now you can ask Wingfield your burning Highlander questions — and win Highlander on Blu-ray, or a replica of Duncan MacLeod's katana! More »
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Why does science fiction always imagine disabled people as villains, less than human, or in need of redemption? You can help change this dire situation, by entering Redstone Science Fiction's new contest, "Towards An Accessible Future." More »
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The search for a new publishing model that takes advantage of the internet continues. Author Peter Riley is giving out $3,000 in prizes to people who'll read his book, Universes, and answer some questions about it. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5540953&view=rss&microfeed=true Attention, aspiring novelists! A new competition could get your space epic or Singularity romance published by a major publisher, and bring you the adoration of millions. SciFiNow is sponsoring the War Of The Words contest in collaboration with Play.com and (more promisingly) Tor U.K. — and even though it's a U.K. contest, people can enter from anywhere. To enter, you need a synopsis and three sample chapters, but you can't advance to the finalist stage unless you're able to produce an entire novel. More details here. [SFFChronicles] More »
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I utterly love Monstertree's image of a robot preparing to terrorize a Japanese city. It's just one of the great images people have posted in ConceptArt.org's robot-art challenge. Click through to see another favorite. More »
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Hugh Jackman can't decide where to throw his big mutant jamboree for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and wants you to vote for a location. That means I'm one lifted restraining order away from Deadpool. [X-Men Origins] More »
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Got any great ideas about the future of medicine? Now's your chance to share them with the world — and reap fame and fortune, plus a free handheld computer, into the bargain. MedGadget, the internet journal of emerging medical technologies, is running its third annual Scifi Writing Contest, seeking stories about future medical technology, as well as future ethical dilemmas. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5076583&view=rss&microfeed=true Are you ready for fame and fortune? Well... fame, anyway? If you're an unpublished writer, this could be your big break. Bantam Spectra is having a speculative fiction writing contest, and the winner gets published in Spectra Pulse, the publisher's free promotional magazine. (I saw a copy the other day, and it looks quite nice. It has short stories and excerpts from upcoming novels, including some of our favorite authors.) You also get $100. Stories must be under 2,000 words, and you have until Jan. 31. Details here, and I hope an io9 reader wins this! [Bantam Spectra] More »
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