OOC - And the winner is...

OOC - Hi everyone, It's time to announce the winner of the Blue Dwarf Novella
competition! :-D
I received four very good finished stories. These were:
"Zerstoren" by Mike Bullen – This was a story set on the Blue Dwarf about a
security officer named James Torsky (or "Shrub" to his friends). German
terrorists attempt to destroy the Blue Dwarf, but security fight them off with
the help of a familiar Red Dwarf character.
"Lester's Story" by J Stebbing – This is a story of J's character Lester before
he joined the Blue Dwarf. Lester works for the company "Back to Reality", where
their most recent version of the popular Actual-Reality game has developed a
fault.
"Dream Land" by James Hogg – On Blue Dwarf's deck 13 there is a secret prison
named the "Bucket". A prisoner named Omar has strange dellusions of cartoon and
TV characters coming to life, which blurs the lines between reality and fiction.
"Supernova" by Rebecca Tordoff - In a parallel universe to Red Dwarf, The
League of Terran Worlds starship 'Supernova' is Captained by the Cake-obsessed
Richard Blacklock, who encounters an alien called the Combine.
All of the stories have been very good quality, and over the next few days I'll
add them to the Blue Dwarf website (www.bluedwarf.co.uk) so that everyone can
see.
The story I have chosen to win has been the one which I thought was the most
creative. I specified when I first announced this competition that I was looking
for something that was "Red Dwarfy". Which can be interpreted in many different
ways. All have differing degrees of funnyness, all have differing degrees of
creativeness, and all have differing degrees of science-fiction elements.
The story I have chosen to win has made the best use of the technology set forth
in the Red Dwarf universe, it has a novel way of using holograms as a method of
communication, and heavily references VR technology from a Red Dwarf episode,
also it makes the most references to the word "smeg".
The winner is......
"Lester's Story" by J Stebbing
Well done J!
Seriously, it was tough because each story was good in different ways and I
don't want anyone to be upset that they didn't win.
I chose J's story because he really embraced the idea to make a stand-alone
story and used it as a chance to tell some background information about his
mysterious character. Grammatically it was very well written, and the characters
were strong and consistent. The story was interesting and the pace throughout
was good.
J's story is on the website, you can read it here:http://www.bluedwarf.co.uk/articles/competition-winner-lesters-story
This also means that J will win the cool little model Starbug! It's been sat on
my desk here for so long that I'll miss it now :-)