A press release from Editor Edmund Schubert of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show:
Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS) and The Elephant and Macaw Banner have partnered up to bring the best of Brazilian speculative fiction to the English-speaking world (for more on the contest, see this article).
The winner, “Story with Pictures and Conversation” (“História com desenho e diálogo”) by Brontops Baruq was chosen by Orson Scott Card from among three finalists selected by a panel of Brazilian judges from over one hundred short stories published in South America in 2009 and 2010.
The other two finalist stories were first runner up, “By a Thread” (“Por um Fio”) by Flávio Medeiros Júnior, and “I, Mother-in-Law” (“Eu, a Sogra”) by Giulia Moon. In a surprise announcement, IGMS has decided to publish not only a translation of the winning story by Baruq, but also the first-runner up story by Medeiros Júnior. Both published stories were translated from Portuguese by Nebula Award finalist, Christopher Kastensmidt.
Hydra Contest winner “Story With Pictures and Conversation” by Brontops Baruq is available now for free in the new issue of IGMS (issue #26), with the first runner up to be published in March in issue #27.
The full table of contents of issue #26 (January 2012), which is now available, includes:
Stories:
“Remains of the Witch” by Tony Pi
“Arkmind” by Niall Francis McMahon
“Contaminant Source Removed” by K.G. Jewell
“The Lair of the Twelve Princesses” by Amanda C. Davis
“Story with Pictures and Conversation” by Brontops Baruq
Tales for the Young and Unafraid:
“Somewhere on a Flattened Earth” by David Lubar
Orson Scott Card—Sneak Preview:
Excerpt from Ruins by Orson Scott Card
InterGalactic Medicine Show Interviews:
InterGalactic Interview With Carrie Vaughn by Darrell Schweitzer