We’ve reached the final week of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4), and Team Tar Vol On is ready with our final three scores. After joining with Space Girls and Red Stars in the semifinals to advance Accidental Intelligence, Bisection, and On Impulse, we have now read the three books selected by the other semifinal group… Continue reading SPSFC Finalist Review: Yours Celestially by Al Hess
We’ve reached the final week of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4), and Team Tar Vol On is ready with our final three scores. After joining with Space Girls and Red Stars in the semifinals to advance Accidental Intelligence, Bisection, and On Impulse, we have now read the three books selected by the other semifinal group… Continue reading SPSFC Finalist Review: Saint Elspeth by Wick Welker
We’ve reached the final week of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4), and Team Tar Vol On is ready with our final three scores. After joining with Space Girls and Red Stars in the semifinals to advance Accidental Intelligence, Bisection, and On Impulse, we have now read the three books selected by the other semifinal group… Continue reading SPSFC Finalist Review: Whiskey and Warfare by E.M. Hamill
June 5 update: Accidental Intelligence has been named a finalist! We’ve made it to the semifinals of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4). Team Tar Vol On advanced two semifinalists, which were joined in our half of the bracket by semifinalists from Space Girls and Red Stars. In this round, the three teams are reading each other’s selections… Continue reading SPSFC Finalist Review: Accidental Intelligence by Bryan Chaffin
June 5 update: Bisection has been named a finalist! We’ve made it to the semifinals of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4). Team Tar Vol On advanced two semifinalists, which were joined in our half of the bracket by semifinalists from Space Girls and Red Stars. In this round, the three teams are reading each other’s selections and… Continue reading SPSFC Finalist Review: Bisection by Sheila Jenné
June 5 update: We’ve made it to the semifinals of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4). Team Tar Vol On advanced two semifinalists, which were joined in our half of the bracket by semifinalists from Space Girls and Red Stars. In this round, the three teams are reading each other’s selections and combining scores to identify the top… Continue reading SPSFC Finalist Review: On Impulse by Heather Texle
We’ve made it to the quarterfinals of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. Team Tar Vol On has sifted through 32 randomly assigned books and selected a top four. That number has since dropped to two, so we’ll be evaluating a pair of our own and a third-place book from one other team in… Continue reading SPSFC Semifinalist Review: Time of the Cat by Tansy Rayner Roberts
We’ve made it to the quarterfinals of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. Team Tar Vol On has sifted through 32 randomly assigned books and selected a top four. That number has since dropped to two, so we’ll be evaluating a pair of our own and a third-place book from one other team in… Continue reading SPSFC Semifinalist Review: A Swift and Sudden Exit by Nico Vincenty
My judging team in the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4) has been given 32 books to whittle down to just two semifinalists. Over the past three months, each of these 32 books have been evaluated by a minimum of two of our judges, and we have narrowed the field down to four books… Continue reading Introducing Team Tar Vol On’s SPSFC4 Quarterfinalists
If you read any of the first three batches, the preamble is the same, so feel free to skip three paragraphs. My judging team for the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4) has been hard at work reading the 32 books initially assigned to us. By the end of March, we need to pick just two… Continue reading Tar Vol On’s SPSFC4 First-Round Eliminations, Batch Four
