The rules of the quantum world mean that we can process information much faster than is possible using the computers we use now.
We are delighted to announce the winners in this edition of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition. Five stories claim prizes across the competition’s Open and Youth categories.
“The wildly divergent approaches to the quantum world and the constraint were inspiring,” says judge Colin Sullivan from Nature. Go here to find the winning stories, see what else the judges had to say about them and to read interviews with the authors.
Congratulations to the winners – and to all the writers who entered and made our decisions so difficult! Quantum shorts will be back again later this year with a call for short films.
Colin is editor of Nature Futures, the award-winning science-fiction column in the science journal Nature. He first joined Nature in 2000 as Chief Subeditor and now spends his time as Managing Editor. Since taking over the Futures reins in 2012, he has overseen the launch of Nature Futures 2, an anthology of 100 stories from 100 authors. He also runs the Future Conditional blog, where Futures authors tell the story behind their story. When not wrestling with the pandimensional issues of schedules, technology and what might be for tea, he has a tendency to stare at Roman ruins - especially those of Pompeii and Herculaneum - and to pore over genealogical records.