Book Giveaway: Terra (19/8/2013)
Last week I was on holiday and did like ALMOST NO WORK AT ALL. Almost. I’ll put some photos up and maybe some words at some point about our time in Jordan but it’s too soon right now except to say that the country is lovely, the people are friendly and it’s basically the Switzerland of the Middle East. It might be surrounded by Bad Shit right now but there’s no sign of it crossing the borders that I could see. Maybe it’s because they don’t have any oil to fight over.
This week’s book giveaway is Terra by Mitch Benn. First reviews off google are here and here. I haven’t read it myself (comic SF not really my thing – I tried to read Hitchhiker again recently and it ^h^h I’ll just not say anything).
Anyway, I have a signed copy to give away courtesy of Gollancz. Usual deal – comment on this post before August 24th and I’ll randomly select a lucky victim for a free copy of the series.
This week we’re playing SF Supermarket. So you need your comment to come up with something to do with SF and the comments have to be in alphabetical order. So for example, A is for Android, B is for Bloody Hell, Lasers Are Not Visible In A Vacuum, etc… You get the picture. If you don’t play the game, your entry is VOID. HAHAHAHAHAAAAA.
Anyway, to enter the competition, you have to play the game. You can enter as may times as you like but I’ll count the first two entries – the rest are just for fun and showing off. Extra points for humour and originality and just for once I’ll throw in an Angry Dragons mug if you make me laugh, smirk or otherwise amuse me.
Although, though no one has yet complained about how long it takes me to get to the post office and post things, it can take a while and if you live abroad then it can take even longer. Sorry about that, but they do get there eventually. Well, so far.
August 19th, 2013 at 1: 03 pm
Count me in! Please.
August 19th, 2013 at 1: 11 pm
No! I won’t unless you play the game :-p
August 19th, 2013 at 1: 19 pm
A is for Aliens who always seem to be intergalactic lords of somewhere
August 19th, 2013 at 5: 14 pm
S is for ship’s engineer- “The engines cannae tak it cap’n”!
August 19th, 2013 at 6: 12 pm
B is for BEM (Bug-Eyed Monsters) who appeared regularly in early fictional works on Others from Outer Space. Gives whole new meaning to “writing the other” I guess.
August 19th, 2013 at 6: 59 pm
C is for Commander.
August 19th, 2013 at 10: 58 pm
D is for dragons, which are totally SF (according to Anne McCaffrey, anyway).
August 20th, 2013 at 9: 39 am
E is for Eschaton, the end of time (a popular topic in SF) and also the name of a pair of novels by Charles Stross
August 20th, 2013 at 9: 48 am
F is for Fahrenheit 451 – if you like your science fiction to be of the dystopian variety.
August 20th, 2013 at 9: 52 am
G is for Gravity. The cause of many an SF alien to be unimaginatively tall and thin/small and squat.
August 20th, 2013 at 9: 53 am
H is for Hologram. Because the future has holograms.
August 20th, 2013 at 11: 04 am
I is for Isaac Asimov
August 20th, 2013 at 11: 10 am
J is for Jupiter
August 20th, 2013 at 12: 31 pm
K is for Philip K Dick
August 20th, 2013 at 9: 17 pm
L is for Logan’s Run
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 28 pm
M is for mind boggling technology
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 37 pm
N is for nano-bots taking over the Enterprise.
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 41 pm
O is for a venerable author who we really wish would stop saying painfully embarrassing things about Teh Gayz or President Obama.
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 42 pm
O is for Outer Space where some stories take place.
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 44 pm
P is for Pew Pew which is the sound all laser guns make when you are 5 years old.
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 49 pm
Q is for the Queen of Mars, who looks inexplicably human and drop dead gorgeous, despite all the male martians looking like six limbed ape creatures.
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 52 pm
A is for arrrgghh which what a red shirt somewhere is currently saying.As once again they are used for target practice
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 55 pm
R is for Rama, with which we Rendezvous.
August 21st, 2013 at 1: 56 pm
S is for ‘Slippery’ Jim di Griz, the Stainless Steel Rat
August 21st, 2013 at 2: 33 pm
T is for Tractor Beam
August 21st, 2013 at 2: 34 pm
U is for Universe, in which most SF stories are set.
August 21st, 2013 at 3: 31 pm
V is for the Void, which sucks up alien spacecraft.
August 21st, 2013 at 3: 49 pm
V is for Vacuum, exposure to which may variously cause explosive decompression, freeze you solid or just bug your eyes out and mess your hair up a bit. Depends who you listen to. Either way, it’s a handy way to dispose of unwanted marauding aliens.
August 22nd, 2013 at 10: 08 am
W is for Wandering which we’ll do among the stars.
August 22nd, 2013 at 11: 41 am
X is for X-rays: still in use in ship’s hospitals…
August 22nd, 2013 at 12: 04 pm
Z is for Zachariah, obviously
August 22nd, 2013 at 12: 05 pm
Y is for youngsters, who always seem to have special powers these days !!
August 22nd, 2013 at 12: 11 pm
A is for Arisian, all-seeing aliens and allies of man
August 22nd, 2013 at 2: 30 pm
B is for Iain M Banks. Master of sci if and creator of The Culture. Gone but not forgotten.
August 26th, 2013 at 9: 12 am
The gods of Random choose Alice!