geekyAll things considered, it's probably not a surprise that when I was offered the chance to blurb Michael Underwood's Geekomancy, I said "sure, why not." A magic system based on and powered by the geeky joys that run my universe? Yes, please. And to no one's shock or amazement, I adored it. It's fun, it's peppy, it's about people I recognize, because they're the kind of people I voluntarily surround myself with every day of my life. The sequel, Celebromancy, came out recently, and is even more fun.
But here's the thing: these books are e-only, which means they miss out on bookstore browsers and surprise eyes, and too many of the awesome geeky people I know haven't encountered them or had the opportunity to give them a try. So I asked Michael's editor if I could do an e-book giveaway for the first book, to get people hooked on the series, and he said sure (after he finished blinking at me a great deal). And so I now present...
SEANAN GIVES AWAY SOMEONE ELSE'S BOOKS FOR A CHANGE!
This giveaway is for three electronic copies of Geekomancy by Michael Underwood. The limitations:
1. You will need to get the book through a specific channel (the publisher's website), because what I have are download codes.
2. The book is not going to be "Kindle ready," and may not be transferable onto a Kindle without evil magic.
To enter, leave a comment with your geekiest moment. No geek is too great! I, and the Random Number Generator, will select three winners on Friday, June 28th. Open to US residents only (sorry), please leave your comment on the entry itself; comments on comments will not be eligible to win.
Game on!
June 24 2013, 19:53:41 UTC 4 years ago
Science geek: Physics class, high school, the time I worked out the longest possible way around to figure out a problem from the book. The rest of my group thought it couldn't possibly work, so we took it to the teacher, who looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Yes, of course, you could do it that way, and you'd get the right answer, but why would you want to?"
General knowledge geek: Sitting in a coffee shop just after college, and a group of slightly younger students, high school seniors or college freshmen at the next table arguing about our system of government. One of them turns around suddenly and says to me, "A democracy is when everybody votes on everything, and a republic is when representatives are chosen to vote for groups of people. Which one is the US system."
"Neither," says I. "We have a hybrid system called a representative democracy or a democratic republic." He tried to insist it had to be one or the other, and I gently (or not so gently) explained that that was a false dichotomy, because whatever he wanted, what we actually had was a hybrid system.
Pop culture:
Asking job applicants, as part of their interviews, "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?" I always swore that if anybody got the reference, they got the job. No one did.
June 24 2013, 21:15:01 UTC 4 years ago
June 25 2013, 04:26:45 UTC 4 years ago