ALTERNATE FLORIDA
Entries accepted Jan. 1 – May 31, 2024
Eric Choi
Eric Choi is a Hong Kong-born aerospace engineer, writer and editor in Toronto, Canada. With Ben Bova, he co-edited the hard SF anthology Carbide Tipped Pens (Tor), and with Derwin Mark, he co-edited the Aurora Award-winning anthology The Dragon and the Stars (DAW). He has twenty-four published stories, of which fifteen are featured in his collection Just Like Being There (Springer). He was the first recipient of the Asimov Award (now the Dell Award) for his novelette “Dedication” and has twice won the Aurora Award, for his short story “Crimson Sky” and for co-editing The Dragon and the Stars. He received a 2023 Sidewise Award for Best Short Form Alternate History for his novelette “A Sky and a Heaven.”
Steven H Silver
Steven H Silver is a twenty-time Hugo Award nominee and was the publisher of the Hugo-nominated fanzine Argentus, as well as the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press, for eight years. He has also edited books for DAW, NESFA Press, and ZNB Books. His novel, After Hastings, was published in 2020. He is the founder of the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History, which have been presented annually since 1995 to recognize excellence in alternate historical fiction.
Rick Wilber
Rick Wilber is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher who has published more than fifty short stories, several novels and short-story collections, three edited anthologies, a memoir, and a half-dozen college textbooks on writing and the mass media.
His most recent novel is Alien Day, the second of a trilogy based on his long-running S’hudonni Empire series of stories. The first book in the trilogy, Alien Morning, was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction novel of 2016.
Other recent publications include The Wandering Warriors (New Word City, 2020) co-authored with Alan Smale; the short-story collection Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination (WordFire Press 2020); Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories (Ed.) (New Word City, 2019); and the collection The Moe Berg Episodes (New Word City, 2018).
He is a Visiting Professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, and he is the co-founder and co-judge with Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Editor Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, awarded annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, Florida.