Spectator competition winners: P.G. Wodehouse does science fiction

For the latest competition you were invited to imagine a well-known author who doesn’t normally write in the genre trying their hand at science fiction. In a 2015 interview, the wonderful Ursula K. Le Guin, always a staunch and eloquent defender of the genre, took a pop at writers of literary fiction who move into sci-fi and simply think that ‘they can use some of the images and tropes and so on from science-fiction and stick them in their book and put it on another planet or in a spaceship or something…’ A fair few entries this week fell into that category, but they managed to be witty and smart all the same. Commendations go to Carl Tanner, whose Conan Doyle brought to mind Wilhelm Reich and his orgonomics, and to Brian Allgar, David Silverman and Frank McDonald. They were unlucky losers. The winners take £30, except Bill Greenwell who pockets £35.

Bill Greenwell/George and Weedon Grossmith Home, sweet Home! Our Krypton-driven Navigator passed into the orbit of Epsilon B at 11 o’clock, and my dear wife Carrie concocted a vitamin booster for the occasion.