Giveaway: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

[helloladies]

If you've escaped hearing about one of Tor's most buzzed about releases, congratulations. Gideon the Ninth was being heavily promoted at the beginning of the year, and people with ARCs who loved it were not subtle about how much they loved it. Tor pushed it heavily—there's some serious marketing behind the book—with lots of attention to the cover art, sneak peeks at the opening chapters, and most notably, a first edition print run with pitch black page edges, making Gideon the Ninth not only the most hyped SFF book of the year, but also one of the most noticeable physical objects to emerge from a mainstream SFF publishing company this year—that art.



All of us haven't read it, but renay read an ARC copy sent to her by a Mysterious Benefactor in late 2018, which has since then been a delicious mystery on top of the book itself, which is a locked room mystery in a crumbling castle in the middle of an ocean featuring a massive cast of necromancers and Gideon, an irreverent narrator who likes swords and ladies. Regardless of its contents, we're always excited to share books about characters who fancy swords and ladies. That's kind of our aesthetic.

We have one hardback copy of Gideon the Ninth (complete with black page edges!) to give away. You will also get:

• old key patterned washi tape
• sparkle skull stickers
• tiny aviator sunglass stickers

Some of these extras won't make sense until after you read the book. After all, the book is a mystery. (Okay, it's a lot of things. There's some genre blending happening. But mystery is in there.)

If this sounds up your alley, enter our giveaway for Gideon the Ninth—yes, even if you're outside the U.S.! THIS IS AN ALL-INCLUSIVE TRIP TO SKELETON ISLAND*.

* The urge to use "TO BONE TOWN" was extremely high. Yes, we're actually five 11 year olds in a trench coat.

Comments

[schneefink]

Three books I really loved recently: "The Winter of the Witch" by Katherine Arden, "The Mortal Word" by Genevieve Cogman, and "Children of Ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

[renay]

Okay, I BOUGHT Children of Time when it won the Clarke, but I have been VERY LEERY...if the sequel is feeling the love, maybe it's not so bad. 😅

[schneefink]

"Children of Time" is brilliant! And "Children of Ruin" is even better. What are you leery of?
(A rec post by rachelmanija)