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XPRIZE Launches Online Sci Fi Anthology

Los Angeles-based prize competition company XPRIZE is trying its hand out as a publisher of literature, saying today that it has launched a new online science fiction anthology site, Seat 14C, which takes a look at what the year 2037 could look like. XPRIZE said the new collection of original stories features such writers as Margaret Atwood, Gregory Benford, Paolo Bacigalupi, Bruce Sterling, Hugh Howey, and Mike Resnick. XPRIZE said the new anthology is written from the perspective of passengers onboard a flight that mysteriously lands in the year 2037, and that it will also be running a contest for the general public to submit their own short story for the online collection, and a chance to win roughly $10,000 worth of prizes. The effort is being funded by Japanese airline ANA.