Expanding Universe Contest

In celebration of the publication of Mouse and Dragon, the thirteenth novel set in their Liaden Universe®, authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are holding an Expanding Universe Contest!  Yes! No less than thirty-six electronic copies of The Dragon Variation will be given away.

The Dragon Variation is an omnibus edition of three Liaden Universe® novels — Conflict of Honors, one of the first modern SFRomances; Local Custom, second place winner of the Prism Award for best Futuristic of 2002; and Scout’s Progress, the first place winner of the Prism Award for best Futuristic of 2002, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice for Best SF Novel of its year, and the prequel to Mouse and Dragon.

That’s three complete novels under one cover.  No prior knowledge of the Liaden Universe® required. Electronic! In Baen Books’ DRM-free, multiplatform style.  This omnibus can be read on your Kindle, your phone, your iPad, your desktop, or other ereader.

Still need some convincing?

The first nine chapters of each of these novels may be read for free at the Baen website.
Conflict of Honors
Local Custom
Scout’s Progress

How The Contest Works:

*The Expanding Universe Contest is open to anyone — and everyone! — who has never, ever, cross-your-heart-&c read a Liaden Universe® novel.

*Reply to this blog entry with your name, and where you heard about the contest.  From those who respond, 36 lucky winners will be chosen by drawing.  If 36 or less people enter the contest, then everyone’s a winner!

*Each winner will be asked to provide their email address for purposes of receiving the code that will allow them to download their prize.

*A list of winners — with links to their websites, should they wish, and links to the website where they heard about the contest — will be published in this blog.

Small Print: The contest begins RIGHT NOW and will end at midnight Eastern Daylight Time (4:00 a.m. GMT) Friday, July 16.  A list of winners will be posted on this blog on Saturday, July 17.  It is the responsibility of the winners to contact Sharon Lee according to the instructions given with the winner’s list.  Prizes will be held for 12 days.

It’s that simple.  So!  Those friends you wanted to get hooked on the Liaden Universe®? Point ‘em this way.  Been meaning to try this Liaden thing, but never got around to it?  We’re making it as easy for you as we can.

Let’s do this thing.

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Bloggers take note!

If you’d like to share the news about the Expanding Universe Contest, there’s a little something in it for you, too.  Hit “reply” and post a link to your  blog entry mentioning the contest, and be entered in a drawing for a $36 gift card from Barnes and Noble. Yes, you may also enter the drawing for a copy of The Dragon Variation, as long as you meet the contest criterion.

332 thoughts on “Expanding Universe Contest”

  3. Hi! I’ve been reading Jennifer Jackson’s Livejournal for a while (where I heard about this contest) and I’ve liked the sound of these books whenever she’s mentioned them, but I have yet to actually read them. And I should totally win, because the contest ends on my birthday, the 16th, and new books are my favorite gifts. 🙂

  4. I’ve never read any of the novels. I heard about it on Baen’s facebook page.

  7. I’ve never read any of the Liaden books before, though I’ve been interested. I heard about the contest from Baen’s facebook posting.

    I also blogged about it, here.

  9. I have never heard of the series. Read about it on Baen
    book’s Facebook page.

  12. Haven’t read any of the novels set in the Liaden Universe. Heard about the contest on tor.com

  13. Had never heard about the Liaden Universe until I read about it on the Tor.com blog. Look forward to winning and giving it a read. Always looking to read new authors.

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  15. Never heard of the series before, but sounds interesting, I heard about the contest from tor.com.

  19. I have also never heard of this universre and I heard about it on Facebook.

  21. Never heard of the series until coming across a mention of this contest on Tor.com. But I am addicted to space opera, AND to omnibuses of such, so extremely interested.

  22. I too have never heard of the series before but having just ordered a Kindle, would love to experience them in the fun new electronic format!

    I heard about this from the tor.com site.

  23. I saw Heather at The Galaxy Express’s post about the contest, and I think it’s great! I hadn’t heard of this series before, but I’m a big fan of SF and would love to read it!

  24. I hadn’t heard of the Liaden Universe before reading about it on tor.com’s RSS feed. Sounds cool, hope I win!

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  28. I’ve never even heard of Laiden, but TOR.com says to check it out, so here I am!
    Thanks.

  29. Never heard of the Laiden Universe until I saw the post on E A Schechter’s (ladysmith) LiveJournal. She popped in a Link, and I popped in Here! Woot!

  31. Tried to leave a comment on this and it didn’t look like it went through the first time, so apologies if I have a duplicate entry!

    I haven’t read any of the Liaden books but I’m totally up for checking them out (and reviewing them on Goodreads and my own blog since I regularly review everything I read!). I’ve heard about this contest from all over the place, but most notably Twitter, Jennifer Jackson’s blog, and tor.com. 🙂

    I’ve also blogged about it over here:

    http://www.annathepiper.org/2010/07/06/signal-boosting-liaden-expanding-universe-contest/

    (Which mirrored onto my LJ and Dreamwidth and JournalFen accounts, all of which are annathepiper, so technically I’ve blogged about it in four places!)

  33. I heard about the contest on the Baen Facebook page. I like a lot of the series that Baen publishes, and the Laiden Universe is defnitely one of my favorites!

  36. Have been meaning to check out Liaden since everyone I know who loves the Vorkosigan Saga tells me I must. . . but I haven’t yet, so yay! I get to enter.

    Heard about this through tor.com.

  37. I’ve not read any of the Liaden universe. I heard about this from my friend krisw on LiveJournal.

  38. I haven’t read the series, but saw this contest on Tor.com, read a few sample pages of Conflict of Honors, and it sounds pretty interesting. Hope I win! 🙂

  40. I’ve never read any books in the Liaden universe, but I’ve heard good things about them.

    I read about this contest on a friend’s livejournal page.

  42. I have never read any of the Liaden Universe books but did see them in my library. Just read about the contest on “Dear Author”, so thought I’d give it a go. Thanks!

  44. I have never read a Liaden novel and have mildly curious about it.

    I heard about this from via a news bit on Facebook from Baen.

  45. Hello,

    I have never heard of this series before but I am a fan of SF&F in general and would love to be introduced to a new series. Heard about it from user “caoilfhionn”

  50. Until I saw an item about the contest posted on SFScope.com, not only had I never heard of the Liaden Universe, I’d never actually heard of either of you, the writers.

    Sorry.

    XOXO,

    Eric

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