It’s January, Christmas is over for another year, and don’t even mention the credit crunch! What you need to cheer you up are some proof copies of some of the exciting SF&F titles that will be hitting the shelves in 2009, courtesy of those warm-hearted people at Gollancz:

• Best Served Cold by Joe Abercombie – this is not published in hardback until June 09, so our lucky winner will really be stealing the march on fellow fantasy fans with this standalone novel, set in the same world as the author’s excellent debut trilogy
• Zima Blue by Alastair Reynolds – a short story collection from one of our best visionary SF writers
• Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding, about which I all I can say is that it’s a “kick-ass heist novel”, also not published until June

To be in with a chance, answer the following question using the form below:

What was the name of Joe Abercrombie’s debut fantasy trilogy?

a. The First Law

b. The Second Hand

c. The Third Man

Terms and Conditions

1. Closing date for entries: 31st January 2009.
2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
4. The winner will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
5. Only the winning entrant will be contacted by Bookgeeks. The webmaster’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. The winner’s name may be published on the Bookgeeks website after the closing date of the competition.
7. The competition is not open to Bookgeeks contributors and their families, or to Orion / Gollancz employees and their families.
8. Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers. Say he is a survivor. ‘Nuff said.

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