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100 Year Starship (100YSS) named today the finalists in the 2023 Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing in seven categories, including the new Original Local Short-Form Fiction for residents of continental Africa in conjunction with the upcoming Nexus Nairobi 2023 \u2013 the people\u2019s interstellar meet-up in the cradle of humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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HOUSTON\/NAIROBI, December 12, 2022 \u2013<\/strong>100 Year Starship (100YSS) named today the finalists in the 2023 Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing in seven categories, including the new Original Local Short-Form Fiction for residents of continental Africa in conjunction with the upcoming Nexus Nairobi 2023 \u2013 the people\u2019s interstellar meet-up in the cradle of humanity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Canopus Award recognizes the finest fiction and non-fiction works that engage broad audiences and enhance the understanding, excitement, and knowledge of interstellar space exploration and travel. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cWho Owns Space?\u201d\u00a0 Writers were invited to explore the possible paths ahead in space, to help identify how various actions, technology focuses, policies, individuals, and communities, and even the stories we tell over the next ten years may indelibly fix space exploration objectives, gatekeepers, and benefits for decades into the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFor thousands of years, humans have looked up to the tapestry of stars, sun, moon, and lights in the sky,\u201d said Dr. Mae Jemison, \u201cToday, while more and more reachable, the question is will the sky and space remain an inheritance for us all? For many, the perception is that space is exclusive to only certain people and countries. This year\u2019s original submission authors examine these issues and give us a lot to ponder and discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n Award categories and finalists include:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPublished Long-Form Fiction\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPublished Short-Form Fiction\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cPublished Long-Form Nonfiction\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cPublished Short-Form Nonfiction\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cPublished Digital Presentation\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOriginal Short-Form Fiction\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOriginal Local Short-form Fiction\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Winners Announcement at Nexus Nairobi 2023<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Winners will be announced during a special Canopus Award ceremony on Thursday, February 2, 2023 during the 100YSS Nexus 2023 held in Nairobi, Kenya, January 31-February 4, 2023 (NexusNairobi.org).<\/p>\n With the theme \u201cWhen Space, Purpose, and Culture Collide,\u201d Nexus Nairobi is \u201cTHE space gathering\u201d to experience, connect, contribute to, envision, inspire & be inspired, create, share, explore, learn and foster an extraordinary future while building a better world, here and now.\u00a0 Nexus brings together the range of human experience, skills, knowledge, creativity, passion, commitment, resources, cultures, technologies, policy, investment, education, art, perspectives, and motivation needed to achieve such an extraordinary future.\u00a0 Nexus 2023 is an in-person and virtual live-streamed engaging participants across the globe.<\/p>\n About the Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A key initiative of 100YSS, the Canopus Awards are named after the second-brightest star in the night sky.\u00a0 Canopus occupies a central role in the human journey over millennia \u2013 from heralding of planting seasons to a major navigation star for Bedouin and deep space probes like Voyager to the star around which Arrakis, the Spice planet science fiction classic Dune, orbits.\u00a0 The Canopus Awards recognize the finest fiction and non-fiction works that engage broad audiences and enhance the understanding, excitement, and knowledge of interstellar space exploration and travel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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