Here are the winners for the 2021 Ubyssey sci-fi contest

We asked you to examine a consequence of bioengineering, whether it be about clones to genetic engineering to a weird semi-sentient vine that’s attached to a cybernetic enhancement.

Myla White    Science    April 15, 2021

‘The Sky is Falling’: 2021 Ubyssey sci-fi contest winner

The bird stares back up at us, but with that dead, shiny look. I pull Sam away ‘cause he’s fixing to touch it with his chubby little hands.

Ava McBrearty    Science    April 15, 2021

‘Hubble’s Law’: 2021 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

I didn’t want the government’s blood money. But in the end, I don’t think there was anything I could have said to keep you home.

Shereen Lee and David Collings    Science    April 15, 2021

‘Hot Water’: 2021 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

Johnny was a chef by trade. Heat was his living. He tasted it in fire noodles and spicy beef. He felt it every time his hands hovered over a wok full of fried eggs.

Sean Cuevas    Science    April 15, 2021

‘At What Cost’: 2021 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

Even if their bones were Gen’d stronger, that just made their teeth more efficient at driving that stress straight into their brain, it felt.

Pawan Minhas    Science    April 15, 2021

‘East to West’: 2020 Ubyssey sci-fi contest winner

Mrs. Kim! Mrs. Kim!” People were screaming at me, shaking me wildly.

Dawna Shim    Science    April 9, 2020

‘Bitcoin and nihilism’: 2020 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

I let the cigarette smoke billow away. I can’t stop it at all, of course I can’t.

Chance Plomp-Schweitzer    Science    April 9, 2020

‘Solace’: 2020 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

Cold fluorescent lights beat down unsteadily on the rickety, rust-bitten balcony.

Ethan Wescoatt    Science    April 9, 2020

‘Game over’: 2020 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

I wake up and my head is pounding, my body is aching and my stomach is turning.

Milleny Kwan    Science    April 9, 2020

‘Wonder how easy it is to play God’: 2019 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

After a couple minutes, Mrs. Price comes back with the tablet. Willow scrolls through to make sure she’s filled everything out, and spends a little more time than she should looking at the personality specs.

Sonia Pathak    Science    April 8, 2019

'Last-Minute Deals': 2019 Ubyssey sci-fi contest runner-up

I give up on TV and stroll into the kids room. Both 13, twins, sleeping comfortably in their pods. The monitor on the outside of each displays the sim they have chosen to play in their dreams.

Miranda Bahng    Science    April 8, 2019

‘Arrestee’: The 2019 Ubyssey sci-fi contest winner

The doctor explained the Treatment to the woman in front of me, leafing through her fMRI, gene assays, blood work, motif summaries for hormone and transduction networks, slicing along a different set of coordinates.

David Wakeham    Science    April 8, 2019