《The Color of Space 》作者：- Charles R. Tanner【EPUB】

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RESULTS OF THE $300.00 PRIZE CONTEST By Hugo Gernsback In our November, 1929, issue, we announced a $300.00 prize story contest. The requirements of this contest were that a short, SHORT science fiction story was to be written around the cover picture of that issue. The story was required to be of the science fiction type, and was to be plausible in the light of our present scientific knowledge. The contest came to a successful close on December 5th, when some eight-hundred-odd manuscripts had been received. This, indeed, is a tremendous number of manuscripts for a contest of this kind and, if we go by the number of entries received, the contest must be declared a huge success. Evidently, everyone wanted to try a hand at writing a short, short science fiction story. Of course, as is usually the case in contests of this kind, most of the manuscripts submitted were unquestionably by amateurs and would-be writers who had no experience in fiction writing. But we appreciate their efforts, even though