Book Giveaways Contest: The Everness Series

It’s giveaway time again! We have two books from the Everness Series, which differs a little from our usual fare. But fear not, it’s good stuff.

 

  

When explaining steampunk, the phrase “alternate history” gets used a lot. It’s essentially a concept based on “what if” – what if the age of steam lasted a lot longer than it actually did? What if Charles Babbage refined his machine and made it accessible? What if dirigibles became the preferred mode of air transportation? What if…well, you get the idea.

 

The many-worlds interpretation (aka the idea of parallel universes) expands on this concept. A LOT. What if you’d taken a left at Albuquerque? What if you’d gone to a different school? What if aliens had landed on the moon before we did? What if…well, again, you get the idea. Ian McDonald’s Everness series takes this concept and turns it into a rollicking, frightening, glorious tale of adventure.

 

Everett Singh’s father has gone missing, and has left Everett the key to multiple universes – seven dimensions’ worth, in fact – and in Planesrunner, Everett starts off to find and hopefully rescue his father.  In Be My Enemy, the search continues, but with added dimensions, added complications, and added characters…sometimes characters existing in many worlds at once. It’s delightfully complicated and may spark many imaginative ideas in your own current reality.

 

And one world is a bit steampunk, although they skipped the age of steam entirely and went straight to electricity. It’s a world I’d like to visit someday.

 

We have a hardbound copy of Planesrunner and two copies of Be My Enemy (one advanced reader copy paperback, one hardbound published copy) to give away! In order to enter the drawing, post a comment below and tell us about a world you’d like to visit. It can be as simple (“in this world everything is the same, except dogs aren’t domesticated”) or as complex as you like. The deadline for entries is Friday, November 16. Sir Reginald and I will draw the winning names soon afterward and you can have a book for Thanksgiving! Good luck, everyone.

 

Additional info:

 

Planesrunner by Ian McDonald

 

Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald

 

Facebook page for the Everness Series: The Infundibulum

 

Comments

[Alden Ash]

Ahh - to visit a world where I am fabulously wealthy and it rains donuts ...

[Bobbi]

Lately I'd love to be in a world that isn't full of hateful political commercials and annoying phone calls. Otherwise, I'd love to visit a world similar to what King Arthur's era always looks like in movies and television shows.

[sarac]

I'd love to live in a world where I wasn't allergic to my cat.

[Kelli Land]

I would deeply cherish the thought of vising a world of truth, of dreams, of equality, and perhaps the occasional unicorn.
But, I must add, I would only *live* in this world, in my life.

[Seanna]

I would love to visit a world that was more ecology-minded, maybe more agricultural, and where there were no corporations poisoning it and us. Like a medieval world but with modern technology?