{"id":22786,"date":"2013-10-19T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22786"},"modified":"2013-10-13T19:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T06:49:35","slug":"scifi-giveaway-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/19\/scifi-giveaway-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"SciFi Giveaway Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/just-arrived-the-disestablishment-of-paradise-by-phillip-mann\/disestablishmentofparadise\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-19878\" title=\"DisestablishmentofParadise\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DisestablishmentofParadise-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DisestablishmentofParadise-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DisestablishmentofParadise-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DisestablishmentofParadise.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a>I have a few SciFi books to give away right now, so I thought I might institute SciFi Giveaway Saturday &#8212; on a strictly ad hoc basis &#8212; until they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n<p>But to be in to win you have to participate: each time I run this you&#8217;ll have to answer a question to enter. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Today the book for giveaway is Philip Mann&#8217;s <strong><em>The Disestablishment Of Paradise<\/em><\/strong> (Gollancz) and the question is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;What book first got you into reading science fiction?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/19\/scifi-giveaway-saturday\/door-into-summer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22788\" title=\"Door Into Summer\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Door-Into-Summer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Door-Into-Summer.jpeg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Door-Into-Summer-92x150.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a>For me, it was Robert Heinlein&#8217;s <em>The Door Into Summer<\/em>, first read at around age 13.<\/p>\n<p>Just comment with your answer anytime up until midnight, Friday 25 October (NZ time.)\u00a0 I&#8217;ll\u00a0 announce the result next Saturday 26th, with the draw (assuming there&#8217;s more than one comment) being made by means of Random.Org<\/p>\n<p>Fully international, as always!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few SciFi books to give away right now, so I thought I might institute SciFi Giveaway Saturday &#8212; on a strictly ad hoc basis &#8212; until they&#8217;re gone. But to be in to win you have to participate: each time I run this you&#8217;ll have to answer a question to enter. \ud83d\ude09 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-giveaways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22797,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22786\/revisions\/22797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}