August 4th, 2009
Cyberpunk’s not Dead: Ficly’s Cyberpunk Fiction Competition
Over at Ficly.com they’re hosting a cyberpunk short story competition, deadline is August 23rd 2009.
Console cowboys. Holograms. Street samurai. Armored battlesuits. All-powerful corporate conglomerates. High-tech drugs. Flesh shops. Jacking into cyberspace to escape the frail confines of ‘the meat.’
The deal at Ficly is that submitted fiction must be limited to 1024 characters, which is the equivalent of 7.3 maxed out tweets. I was unable to find any sufficient term for fiction of that span, but the people of Ficly have dubbed them “Ficlets”.
*struggling to get mind out of gutter*
As to what the elements of a cyberpunk story are, I could go on for Megabytes. But the competition guidelines (somewhat implicitly) state that “the old cyberpunk motto of ‘high tech and low life,’” should suffice.
So wipe off your greasy hands and put away the snacks, because now is the time to write.
