Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Get your geek on: a GEEKOMANCY giveaway!

I am a total geek. I have never tried to conceal my geekiness, choosing instead to embrace it for the wonderful thing that it is. Without my geeky pastimes, I wouldn't have the same friends, the same toys...the same life. I don't define myself by my geeky passions, but I can't pretend that they haven't defined me throughout my existence. Much like a bonsai is shaped by wire and scissors, I have been shaped by the X-Men and horror movies and roleplaying games and mythology, and I like me this way.

All 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!
Tags: geekiness, giving stuff away, good things, people make things, reading things
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godream

June 25 2013, 02:22:28 UTC 4 years ago

A collective geekiest moment from a lunch conversation at work (we're software engineers, but in retrospect I was a bit outclassed as the only non-physics major in the group):
"Well, if we *were* living in the Matrix, what would be the giveaways? Personally I think that if there were some shortest measurable distance, that would be a sure sign that we were living in a simulation. I mean, that's lazy programming right there, clearly taking a shortcut."
"Yeah, likewise, if there was some maximum speed that it was possible to go. You'd set it really high of course, like hundreds of millions, maybe MAX_INT, and figure nobody would actually run into it..."
"Sure, that would actually be really useful, because then you could more easily parallelize the simulation -- it would be easier to split it over a bunch of machines because you'd know that events sufficiently far apart in space couldn't affect each other within some period of time."
"Hm....."