Shadowhawk and The Founding Fields present another giveaway, courtesy once again of the great folks at Angry Robot.

“A debut novel by a game designer and a cover that evokes Assassin’s Creed. If that doesn’t sound promising, then nothing else does.” ~Shadowhawk, The Founding Fields

For the third TFF giveaway of the year, Angry Robot have provided two copies of their upcoming debut release, Three by Jay Posey. Jay moonlights often as a video game designer and that was one of the things that interested me in the novel, even before I read the premise. It reminds me quite a bit of the Vin Diesel-starrer Babylon A.D, with which the novel has some basic similarities, but the idea appears to be much more solid and much more interesting.

With a background in game designing, which I know from practical/observed college experience to be a very demanding job as a game developer, I’m really interested to see what Jay brings to the novel. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (hopefully soon!) so I’m looking forward to it with a lot of excitement. Unlike what the general public thinks, game design isn’t just about coming up with cool gameplay and all. It is about storytelling through gameplay. Game designers ARE storytellers, with a very fine sense, generally speaking, for placing visual story elements through what we call a “game level”.

I have to say I would love to see some of that tricky challenge storytelling vibe filter down into the novel. And of course, I’m beginning to get onto a kick for post-apocalyptic/apocalyptic fiction so that’s another reason why Three is high on my list of books to read this year. These are certainly exciting times for Angry Robot.

Earlier this year we had Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey, the first in his Black Dawn trilogy (also from Angry Robot), which was also a post-apocalyptic book with a heavy touch of fantasy. Putting Black Feathers and Three against each other, with their quite different genre feels, should be an intriguing experiment, and one I shall certainly report on in a review of the latter. So you have that to look forward to.

In the meantime, without further ado, here are the details of this giveaway.

• Simply answer the following question in the comments section: “What is your favourite post-apocalyptic movie and novel? Why?”
• The giveaway runs from today, 29th July, and all the way through to the 13th August. So that’s a full 2 week window in which you can participate.
• There are two copies of the book up for grabs, kindly provided by the publisher, Angry Robot.
• Entries are open internationally.
• At the end of the window, I’ll pick two entrants at random and they will receive an email that they’ve won. They will have up to 7 days to respond, sooner the better so I can make sure that the winners get their copy of the book. If there is no response in that one-week period, I will pick another winner(s) as needed.

This giveaway is part of a rather big blog tour ongoing for Jay’s novel, and here’s a handy tour banner, courtesy of Tabitha at the My Shelf Confessions Blog.

Tabitha is running a giveaway on her blog as well, so if you want more chances to win a copy of Three then head over and check her blogpost out and take part in the whole rafflecopter giveaway process. You can find all the necessary links in a guest post that Jay did for me earlier today at my personal blog, titled “NANP: Name A Thousand Children“.

Enjoy!

UPDATE:

I’ve picked the two winners as of just now and they have up to 7 days to respond. If there’s no response from either of them, then I pick the winners again, as appropriate.