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\u00a0100 Year Starship (100YSS) announced the winners of the 2023 Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing at Nexus Nariobi 2023.<\/p>\n
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HOUSTON\/NAIROBI, February 6, 2023 -\u2013<\/strong>100 Year Starship (100YSS)\u00a0announced the winners of the 2023 Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing at Nexus Nairobi 2023. The 100YSSCanopus Awards recognize the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar space exploration.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s writing theme, \u201cWho Owns Space?\u201d explores the future of humanity in space.\u00a0 The winners in the following categories are:<\/p>\n The Canopus Award\u2019s namesake is the second brightest star in the night sky.\u00a0 It has occupied a central role in the human journey over millennia from an auspicious herald of planting seasons to a major navigation star for civilizations from the Bedouins of Sinai to the Voyager probe.\u00a0<\/p>\n A key initiative of 100YSS, the Canopus Award invites writers and journalists to join the adventure.\u00a0 Led by former astronaut, engineer, physician, and entrepreneur, Dr. Mae Jemison, 100YSS is building a global community that is capable of mounting this audacious journey.<\/p>\n \u201cStorytelling is essential to communicating and concretizing a vision.\u00a0 A story well told\u2014fictional or non-fictional\u2014pushes us to consider how, where, who, and why we advance, stagnate or regress,\u201d said Dr. Jemison.<\/p>\n <\/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 Spcie 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