I am not early with this, but the winners of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced. I am also surprised that Word spell-check recognizes Bulwer-Lytton. Anyway, go here http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm for the tragic consequences of this contest.
Like the proverbial train-wreck, it is a thing not to be turned away from once it has been revealed to your eyes. The deed of exposing this travesty this day falls to me. I do not shirk the doing of this deed, rather I face it with my resolve firmed and my tongue planted firmly in my cheek (I have to ask one of my doctors about that). I may have to submit an entry of my own to this thing one day.
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That's awesome. That 2nd entry could have been lifted from one of the hitchhiker's books...
I have to take exception to the Sci-Fi winner & runner-up - both entries were clearly plagiarized from at least a dozen books.
Oh, I loved the second one. And I think I did read some of them when I was a kid devouring the SF section of the library - there were some amazingly mediocre books in that collection.
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