Check out the entries in my corner of the METAtropolis contest. Some great stuff there. I’ll be announcing a winner for my portion of the contest later today, after I’ve had some time to think it over. And of course, don’t forget the other four…
Posted: 5:32 am Tue June 08 2010 | Comments(1) |
As you may already know, the Tor edition of Hugo-nominated shared-world anthology METAtropolis — featuring novellas by Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, Karl Schroeder, and me — comes out on June 8th.
We’re having a contest to give away five copies of the book, one on each of our blogs.
Which means after you enter here (contest closes on June 7th and winners will be announced on June 8th), you can enter on the other four author blogs for a pentagonal path to glory. Yes, five chances to win a free book!
For my contest, here’s what you need to do:
Post an image in comments of the city of the future. Show me what a METAtropolis really looks like. Can be a photo, a photoshop, or art. But when you post it, give me a paragraph or more of caption to make it clear what you’re thinking.
So, for example:
In the future, we will all live in small rural ruins at the bottoms of the canyons because we are hiding from the megapodal landsharks that will roam the surface of the Earth from horizon to bloody horizon thanks to the drastic unravelling of John Scalzi’s genetic experiments. The Beverly Hillbillies will be our guide to Nature, and we will all eat Hostess baking products delivered by hoverboard.
I will pick the one that either makes me laugh the hardest or think the hardest. Ideally both.
Bear’s contest here: here.
Toby’s contest here.
John’s contest here.
Karl’s contest here.
(Portions of this post shamelessly nicked from
Posted: 3:03 pm Wed June 02 2010 | Comments(22) |
Go ahead. Mock me. See if I care.
Posted: 4:51 pm Tue February 16 2010 | Comments(1) |
The latest caption contest voting poll has produced a winner, Kyle Cassidy. His winning entry, with a runaway 20% of the vote:
Mr Lake, the implants will work as we discussed, but it’s my personal belief that no one will take you seriously as a supervillan in that hat
Photo © 2009 M. Lake, all rights reserved. Used with permission.
Kyle, you have scored an ARC of Pinion and a fresh-off-the-press copy of Death of a Starship.
Posted: 5:25 am Wed December 30 2009 | Comments(1) |
Photographed at the Whatcom Creek Estuary, in Washington State, by
© 2009. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.
The Flash Fiction Open contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] now has a winner! Jonathan won with “Untitled“, capturing 71 votes out of 162 votes cast. Jonathan, please contact me in comments or via email, and I’ll send you an autographed copy of Green to celebrate your blue hat.
The rest of y’all drop by and read Jonathan’s winning story.
Posted: 5:49 am Tue September 22 2009 | Comments(6) |
Photographed at the Whatcom Creek Estuary, in Washington State, by
© 2009. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.
Per a suggestion from
All of the stories can be read here: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
I had four celebrity judges read all twenty stories, and give me preliminary rankings. My thanks go out to
Now it’s time to vote, in the poll here. The five finalist stories are all linked from the poll post, so it’s easy to click through and peruse them. Check it out, and support your favorite.
Posted: 2:04 pm Tue September 15 2009 | Comments(8) |
On Twitter today, I said:
Pondering fictional character pickup lines. John Carter of Mars: “My radium rifle will really make you glow, baby.” Others?
A few answers have filtered in:
@Animakitty: Decompression alarms are going off in my head baby, ‘cuz you just took my breath away.
@etcet “I find your lack of faith… arousing.”
@Rblay I think my robot likes your laptop
@rndrum “Materialize around here often?”
And via Facebook, Jonathan Vos Post: “Sample Caltech pickup line from the all-male era, usually unsuccessful: ‘Would you rather be infra-read or ultra-violated?’”
I think we have the makings of a contest. With, like prizes and stuff. So here it is, the fictional character pickup-line contest. You know what to do, now go to it in comments.
Posted: 6:55 pm Mon August 03 2009 | Comments(11) |
Green [ Powell's | Amazon
To be eligible for the contest, you must post by Friday, June 12th. Bonus points for posting tomorrow!
Posted: 8:24 pm Mon June 08 2009 | Comments(8) |
Per the voting poll here to caption this photo:
…the winner is
Posted: 2:16 am Fri May 22 2009 | Comments(1) |
See here for the new caption contest voting poll, based on
Posted: 7:28 pm Sun May 10 2009 | Comments(0) |
