The time has come to announce the winners to the GameSpot Bioshock Infinite creative writing contest. We asked users to delve deep into the beautiful world of Bioshock and come up with a short story. After collecting all of the entries and pouring through page after page of blogs GameSpot has finally determined their winners. rwc117 and partenie_marius

Bioshock Infinite: Prologue

By rwc117

In the pre-dawn light, even a place like Brooklyn seemed serene and peaceful. The soft purple sky heralded the arrival of the morning, the solitary sound of hooves clapping on pavement echoed through the streets, and without all the people hustling and bustling about their daily lives, the brownstones, buildings and lamp posts were deathly still, like the calm before the storm.

BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM

The loud, heavy knocks at his front door roused Alonzo Rossi from a dreamless sleep. Dazed but alert, he instinctively reached a hand under his pillow and felt the familiar heavy metal of his Browning 1903 pistol…. [read more.]

The Atlantis in the Sky

By partenie_marius

12th September, 11:35 p.m.

My name is Alistar Bloom and this is the first entry of my expedition. I am searching for Columbia, the City in the Sky. As the whole world knows, in March of 1981, a mysterious building was found high in the Alps. From the remains of the wreckage, it was deduced that the fallen object was part of Zachary H. Comstock's flying metropolis.

That was the first evidence in over 80 years. Somehow it felt unusual to me. Could it have been a technical malfunction that brought the flying tower down? If so, I don't think Columbia would leave such a trail behind. They are still wanted by the American government. Where they unable to clean their tracks? Was this an act of sabotage? I don't know yet. What I do know is this wasn't a random event. Call it a reporter's gut instinct, but something big is going to happen and I'm going to be the first to tell the world about it…. [read more]

Runners Up

While there were only two first place winners, we were so impressed with the amount of talent displayed during the contest that we added two Boys of Silence figures to be awarded to these fantastic writers:
- "The Lighthouse Keeper" by: justice2501
- "THE REPLACEMENT" by: kyleshamburg

Second Runner Up

A great piece that also deserves to be featured in its own light. Many of the judges felt that this piece clearly had a lot of heart and effort put into it. So we couldn't let him go away empty handed. So our second runner up will receive the psychology of dissent journal - saurabhfiction's three part submission.

Honorable Mentions

Last but not least, a very special thanks to our honorable mentions.
- Darkwrath016
- Kelsus
- kirbyjedi
- renpup
- robertlachlan
- Khartan
- seanmdotcogan
- blueboxdoctor
- pokecharm
- Krogan_Ballet
- Halcyon3210
- Booker_Dewitt
- InvalidLogin
- AnotsuStark
- WoodRatJack
- kentriz
- AGreyKnight
- Chainsofstrife
- MasterTheHero
- amf3988
- mgsfan104
- shadowdrummer99
- JoeManners
- vadicta
- MarkVills
- ripplep
- eaze2010
- TaoranPrince
- Clawofdeath25
- TimeTrotters
- g1rldraco7
- samclockwise
- Deathsim
- appleknight
- TheFrostWolf
- Sharpie125
- thomasmclean
- kentriz