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Our Wolves by Simon Ings contest has just concluded and here are the results! We had 41 re-tweets and 15 comments on the blog as well as a handful of likes on Facebook. No too shabby! We put all those names into a spreadsheet and used a random number generator to pick our 5 lucky winners:

 

 

 

Congrats to all our winners! If you are one of our prize winners please send your full name and snail-mail address to us at “info [at] worldswithoutend [dot] com” so we can send you your prize right away. Be sure to mention Wolves in your email so we know which prize you’re claiming.

Our thanks to Gollancz and Simon Ings for making the contest possible. Didn’t win this time?  Don’t give up!  We have more contests coming up.  In fact, there’s still time to get your name in the hat for our latest Jo Fletcher Fridays contest The Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell.

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Today we have something really special to give away from the fine folks at Gollancz: 5 autographed paperback copies of Wolves by Simon Ings!  The cover art is stunning and artist Jeff Alan Love has designed the covers for a collectable set of paperbacks re-launching Simon Ings’ backlist: Hot Head, Headlong, City of the Iron Fish, Hotwire and Painkillers, (Gollancz, February – June 2014).

From Gollancz:  “Wolves is set tomorrow and round the corner (Simon’s debut was a much more ‘conventional’ twisted cyberpunk tale) but manages to carry a heavy load of genuine strangeness and terror. This is a novel about how crazed WE can become and how our technologies can make that craziness sharper and deeper. It’s also a novel about two childhood friends and the strains put on their friendship as their lives go off the rails.

It is not, I have to warn you, a bundle of laughs, but it is written with clear insight and wit and great intelligence. And the prose is to die for.

We’re proud to be publishing this book. If you like J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick we think you’ll love reading it. I loved it enough to buy five of Simon’s backlist (all that I could get) for Gollancz and they’ll be coming out from us through the first six months of 2014.“

In case you’ve forgotten how to play this game, all you have to do is re-tweet this tweet:

RT to win autographed copy of Wolves by Simon Ings http://t.co/bEzwxC8ulc ..comment on blog post & double the chances pic.twitter.com/q7yuLfK6tb

— Worlds Without End (@WWEnd) January 27, 2014

…or comment here in the blog to enter the contest. Do both and double your chances! It’s about as easy as we can make it. We’ll have a random drawing from our re-tweeter pool and announce the winners next Monday so tweet away and don’t forget to tell your friends.

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Wolves
by Simon Ings

The new novel from Simon Ings is a story that balances on the knife blade of a new technology. Augmented Reality uses computing power to overlay a digital imagined reality over the real world. Whether it be adverts or imagined buildings and imagined people with Augmented Reality the world is no longer as it appears to you, it is as it is imagined by someone else. Ings takes the satire and mordant satirical view of J.G. Ballard and propels it into the 21st century.

Two friends are working at the cutting edge of this technology and when they are offered backing to take the idea and make it into the next global entertainment they realise that wolves hunt in this imagined world. And the wolves might be them.

A story about technology becomes a personal quest into a changed world and the pursuit of a secret from the past. A secret about a missing mother, a secret that could hide a murder. This is no dry analysis of how a technology might change us, it is a terrifying thriller, a picture of a dark tomorrow that is just around the corner.

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What people are saying about Wolves:

Best of luck to you all.  Be sure to come back next Monday to see if you’ve won!

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