Giveaway: Gavin Smith Stuff (1/4/2014)
ELITE!!!!! (at this point please picture a hyperkinetic author running about in wide circles waving his arms in the air). So there’s an announcement about Elite: Dangerous tie-in novels. Meanwhile the proofs for The Splintered Gods are done, the proofs for Elite: Wanted are well on their way and hurrah, that’s the end of page proofs for a while and I can get back to The Silver Kings.
Anyhow, if you read the Elite news, you’ll know that Gollancz SF author Gavin Smith and I have turned into some hideous chimera EVEN WORSE THAN EITHER ONE OF US ALONE to write Elite: Wanted. So this week I’m giving away some of Gavin’s books to deny him a few pennies in sales and generally be cruel in a petty kind of way.
Usual deal – comment on this post before April 14th and I’ll randomly select lucky victims. This week I want to know WHY HAVEN’T YOU READ DRAGON QUEEN YET spaceship names. Ones that you’d like to see in print, not ones already there. Who knows…
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. I’m off to the post office RIGHT NOW to clear the Big Book Bonanza. And Blood of Elves (sorry, Blood of Elves winner).
April 1st, 2014 at 5: 20 pm
I was thinking Dragonfly, because Dragon Queen and Firefly. I also like the sound of Infectious Vector, but that’s really more of a band name. How about Zafir’s Pride?
I won’t win because I only win when Gallow is the prize, but hey, I like to comment.
And, I HAVE READ DRAGON QUEEN.
April 1st, 2014 at 5: 29 pm
My favourite ship in Elite 2D, i mean Escape Velocity (by Ambrosia) was called the Blissful Catatonia. Well, until it got renamed to become the Burning Debris.
April 1st, 2014 at 6: 16 pm
GCU I Thought He Was With You. Sorry, but this type of topic is going to attract Iain m Banks fans
April 1st, 2014 at 6: 27 pm
If I was a Culture ship I’d call myself the Rational Panic.
April 1st, 2014 at 6: 57 pm
I can certify that Gavin Smith is deadly with his matched set of foam rubber swords!
April 1st, 2014 at 9: 35 pm
You could name one Kaos (my net/gamer nane), alternatively you name one after the beautiful idyllic neighbourhood I came from, “Whitfield”.
April 2nd, 2014 at 12: 00 am
Mining Vessel: Crimson Midget.
April 2nd, 2014 at 2: 56 am
“The square of the Hypotenuse”
April 2nd, 2014 at 9: 17 am
The Nothing to See Here smuggling vessle
April 13th, 2014 at 8: 17 pm
Paul and JonB (ha, the irony, but I never overrule the Gods of Random).