Details on how to enter are below. See the finalists from the first contest here.

The Winner

Title: Yes We Can

Based on: The Wizard of Oz

Submitted by: Webmonkees

Congratulations to this year's winner, Webmonkees for this wonderfully creative and artistic imagining of a recruitment poster for the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. I always thought they had inexplicably good morale.

Wait, I can hear you thinking, did he say, "this year's winner?" Yes indeedy, I believe this is worth doing on an anual basis. Unless it's not, in which case it might stay as a bi-annual kind of thing. Do check out all the finalists and entries -- they're all really quite excellent. This year's contest was brought to you by Marvellous Hairy, (Available on Kindle for $1.99, Amazon for $10.99, and lots of other places too.)

The Runner Up

Title: The Exciting New Soylent Bar

Based on: Soylent Green

Submitted by: Javier B.

I love the tagline for this one: "You're tastier than you think!"

This came in second place by a margin of two votes (out of a total of 216, so you can see it was a pretty close run thing.)

Finalists

Okay, I'll admit it, I wimped out. Getting the list down to five was impossible, and to be honest, six was brutal too, but I just can't afford to give away so many copies of Marvellous Hairy.Thanks to everyone for their creativity and willingness to play!

You can check out the poll results here -- the voting was very close!

Title: Yes We Can

Based on: The Wizard of Oz

Submitted by: Webmonkees Title: Suk Doctors

Based on: Dune (The Suk Doctors)

Submitted by: Morgan H. Title: The Exciting New Soylent Bar

Based on: Soylent Green

Submitted by: Javier B. Title: Enjoy Slurm

Based on: Futurama

Submitted by: Olav S. Title: Gonzo

Based on: Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas

Submitted by: David H. Title: Eloi - The Other White Meat

Based on: The Time Machine

Submitted by: Randy S. back to top

The Contest Gallery

Vintage Ads of Fictional Futures

Here's the concept: find a vintage ad, and then create a product from a created world — it can be from a book, movie, TV, etc. It doesn't have to be science fiction; you could go with a fantasy world, an alternate reality, whatever.

How to enter:

create your masterpiece (a jpg, png, pfd or gif, please) post it to your blog, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous … or just email it to me let me know about it, and what it's based on, in the comments here, by email (markarayner-at-gmail-dot-com) or Twitter (@markarayner). (If you want a specific title/credit, and a link to a website, let me know that too.) they will go in a gallery above do it by midnight, Monday October 4th (2010) wait for the aplomb and/or ridicule of your peers I'll narrow it down to a shortlist of five, and then everyone can vote on those.

The Prizes:

a walk-on appearance in the novel I’m currently working on (this will be the last chance for a year at least)

a t-shirt from either of my shops, CafePress or Wordans

whatever the winner didn't choose

a copy of Marvellous Hairy (or The Amadeus Net, if you've already bought it)

$2 off a copy of Marvellous Hairy from Amazon.com.

Go be awesome!

Want to Comment?

Please leave any comments on the original call for entries, at The Skwib.