Eric T. Reynolds, who coordinated the contest for Hadley Rille Books and the National Space Society (NSS), has announced the winners of the “Return to Luna” writing contest (which we detailed in this article). Judges for the contest, the goal of which was to show the adventure of lunar settlement, included Michael A. Burstein, Tom Dupree, Jude-Marie Green, Jay Lake, Geoffrey A. Landis, Christopher McKitterick, Eric T. Reynolds, Lawrence M. Schoen, Allen Steele, and SFScope editor Ian Randal Strock.
The winners will appear in the forthcoming Hadley Rille anthology, and their authors will receive one-year memberships in the NSS.
The grand prize winner is “Visual Silence” by M.C. Chambers.
The other winners (alphabetically by author) are:
“Growing Season in Mare Frigoris” by Benjamin Abbott
“The Platinum Desolation” by Andrew Barton
“Best Gift” by Brandon Bell
“In Their Own Words” by Brenta Blevins
“Ménage à Trois” by Gustavo Bondoni
“Book of the Dead” by Sarah A. Eastly
“Joe the Martian Goes to the Moon” by Ken Edgett
“Final Arrangements” by J.M. Fisher
“Misdirected” by Adam Israel
“Coping Mechanisms” by Gerri Leen
“Black Ice” by F.R.R. Mallory
“Coyote and the Gamblers” by Shauna Roberts
“The Return” by David Schibi
“Apples on the Moon” by Karen T. Smith
“One Last Haul” by Mark J. Soppet
The stories receiving honorable mentions include:
“SMOG” by Jean-Michel Calvez
“The Foothills of Shackleton” by David L. Clements
“Lunar Decisions” by Eric Conrad
“The Day” by Russell A. Dale
“Paying the Price” by Dorothy Diehl
“Winter Solstice” by Jamie Eyberg
“Treading the Regolith” by Catherine J. Gardner
“Fermi’s Paradox” by Giorgio Gaviraghi
“Jumper: First Cat on the Moon” by Michael Janzen
“Moondust” by Kate Kelly
“Stargazing” by Alex Moisi
“Growing Up” by Karen Szymczyk