By Dmitry Filipoff From the week of Nov. 29 through Dec. 3, 2021 CIMSEC ran the top 10 stories submitted to the USNI-CIMSEC Fiction Contest. The top finishers were ultimately selected by our esteemed panel of judges, which included August Cole, David Weber, Larry Bond, Kathleen McGinnis, Peter Singer, and Ward Carroll. Authors explored future hypotheticals … Continue reading Fiction Week
By Dmitry Filipoff Fiction Contest Week is finally here! Through the next week, CIMSEC will run the top stories submitted in response to our Short Story Fiction Contest, launched in partnership with the U.S. Naval Institute for the second consecutive year. The winners were ultimately selected by our panel of judges which included August Cole, David … Continue reading Fiction Contest Week Kicks Off on CIMSEC
By Hal Wilson Bodies are strewn across the rolling, sunlit fields — each one clad in the scarlet tunics and bearskins of British Guardsmen — each one “marking the line of their victorious advance.”1 But their victory is a brief one. Hostile reinforcements are pouring in, quickly mounting a flank attack of their own. Chaos follows, … Continue reading The Past and Future Wars of Fiction
By the Editorial Staff of CIMSEC and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings The Challenge Fiction is a powerful means for exploring hypotheticals and envisioning alternatives. CIMSEC and the U.S. Naval Institute are partnering to invite authors to share their visions of the future in the second joint fiction essay contest. View the top 20 stories from … Continue reading Announcing the 2021 U.S. Naval Institute-CIMSEC Fiction Contest
