Contest: win an ARC–an advanced copy!!
a novel by Greg van Eekhout
So here’s the deal. You–yes, you!–can win an ARC of this novel, The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout. It’s a terrific book. I even wrote a blurb about it:
“Greg van Eekhout’s The Boy at the End of the World is both moving and full of adventure. This remarkable survival story will change the way readers think about themselves and the world they live in.”
All you have to do to enter is pick a number between 1 and 209 and post it in the comments. I’ll respond with a line from that page in the book. When we’re all done (in one week from today, April 11), I’ll do a random number generator thingy and that person will be the winner. Be sure to include your email when you leave your comment so I can contact you if you win.
Come back and read all the comments, and you’ll get some awesome sneak peeks of the book!
Good luck!
04/04/2011 at 2:24 pm
47!
It’s *so* much better than 42.
04/04/2011 at 2:30 pm
You got it!
From page 47:
This was the price he paid for not obeying his impulse to escape.
04/04/2011 at 2:26 pm
My number is 9, the age of the son who would love to get his hands on this book (while patiently awaiting MT 4).
04/04/2011 at 2:33 pm
Oh, this book is SO in the zone for a nine year old boy!!!
From page 9:
“What do you want?” Fisher said, ready to make another spear thrust.
04/04/2011 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for the giveaway! The number I choose is 159. I like the cover of the book and your dog looking at it! So cute 🙂
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04/04/2011 at 2:36 pm
Extra points for the dog love!!
From page 159:
Though the buildings stood, whole and firm, this place seemed as dead to him as the destroyed Ark where he’d become born.
04/04/2011 at 2:28 pm
Yay! Thanks for doing this, SarahP!
04/04/2011 at 2:38 pm
You’re welcome! And note–dog picture!
04/04/2011 at 2:56 pm
I look forward to posting pictures of Dozer with your next book. (Or the shredded remains of it, as the case may be.)
04/04/2011 at 2:30 pm
166 please….I guess I could not follow directions before 🙂 lol
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04/04/2011 at 2:39 pm
166, got it!
And there were also little ones, prairie dog children, chasing each other and wrestling.
04/04/2011 at 2:33 pm
Oh… 199
04/04/2011 at 2:42 pm
An excellent choice!
“Fisher, you are making the most inefficient escape I have yet witnessed since your awakening,” Click said.
04/04/2011 at 2:49 pm
HA! That’s a great line. It should be on a t-shirt
04/04/2011 at 2:56 pm
There are SO many great lines in this book. It’s hard to choose just one from each page.
04/04/2011 at 2:35 pm
Great give away I hope this is international If so my number is ……. 105
Thanks
04/04/2011 at 2:43 pm
Sure thing! From page 105:
This could be the place where he would finally come face-to-face with other living humans.
04/04/2011 at 2:37 pm
133 for me, please 🙂
04/04/2011 at 2:47 pm
From p 133 (one of my favorite scenes):
“I keep feeling like we’re being followed.”
04/04/2011 at 4:02 pm
Awesome!
I have rather been feeling this all day.
04/04/2011 at 2:38 pm
My number is 44
04/04/2011 at 2:48 pm
And an excellent number it is! Though not on the Scramble board:
Maybe the mammoth was good for more than meat and shoes.
04/04/2011 at 2:41 pm
200!
04/04/2011 at 2:50 pm
This is a very exciting part of the book! From page 200:
“You must destroy my brain.”
04/04/2011 at 2:44 pm
The dice tell me to pick 84.
04/04/2011 at 2:52 pm
84 it is! Here is your line from the book:
Fisher’s brain and hands automatically calculated what he could make from the junk: fishhooks and arrowheads and small, fine cutting tools.
04/04/2011 at 2:44 pm
Number 3. Nice contest!
04/04/2011 at 2:53 pm
Page three. Coming right up!
Fisher didn’t know anything about attacks, except that they were dangerous and should be avoided.
04/04/2011 at 2:54 pm
204
And I really would love this book!
Catherine
04/04/2011 at 4:09 pm
I’m sure you will! Here’s a line from page 204:
“Prairie dogs is victorious,” she said with a yip.
04/04/2011 at 3:04 pm
Page 11 please.
04/04/2011 at 3:13 pm
Page 11 it is!
Fisher knew about rats.
04/04/2011 at 3:05 pm
72! Awesome giveaway!
04/04/2011 at 3:14 pm
Glad you think so! Here is a line from page 72:
As the sun set and the river blazed with shimmering orange, he stepped back from his creation and appraised his work.
04/04/2011 at 3:13 pm
Page 203 please, that has been my racing number for years.
04/04/2011 at 3:16 pm
Cool! 203 happens to be a very fast part of the book, too.
“Stay here, okay? I’m going to go out and…Well, just stay here.”
04/04/2011 at 3:18 pm
8 – that’s my lucky number!
(crossing fingers and toes)
04/04/2011 at 3:23 pm
Here’s hoping 8 is lucky again! Here’s your line from page 8 in the book:
He discovered he knew the word hypothermia.
04/05/2011 at 11:34 am
Brrrrr.
04/04/2011 at 3:39 pm
This is way cool How about page 22?
04/04/2011 at 4:03 pm
Twenty two!
“Also,” the robot said, “a rock fell on my head and a rat tried to eat my face, so it is possible that I am not seeing all the available options.”
04/04/2011 at 3:42 pm
71–the year I graduated from high school.
04/04/2011 at 4:05 pm
😀 An excellent year.
Here’s a line from page 71:
His life was so different from the way humans had lived that he couldn’t believe he was part of the same species.
04/04/2011 at 3:58 pm
Page 1…!!! No one has chosen page 1??!! I would love to know the first line of this book, which comes out on June 21…my birthday! (just in case anyone wants to send me an early ARC birthday kind of gift…!!!) **Hi and virtual doggie bones to Athena! Looking good, girl! 🙂
04/04/2011 at 4:06 pm
UnbeLIEVEable that nobody’s chosen 1 yet!
I’m going to give you bonus lines, because they’ll make better sense that way:
This is what he knew:
His name was Fisher.
The world was dangerous.
He was alone.
And that was all.
04/04/2011 at 6:12 pm
OK, I’m hooked. I am intrigued and want to know more. Looks like I’ll be adding this book to my shopping list when it’s out if I don’t win the ARC. 🙂
04/04/2011 at 4:33 pm
All right, I’m going to go with page 26 since that is when my husband and I will celebrate our 12th anniversary.
04/04/2011 at 4:38 pm
Sounds great! Here’s a line from page 26:
Fisher gritted his stupid teeth.
04/04/2011 at 4:35 pm
162
04/04/2011 at 4:40 pm
Page 162 it is!
Dozens of prairie dogs showed themselves now, rappelling down from the walkways.
04/04/2011 at 4:57 pm
p. 65, please. Enjoying these snippets!
04/04/2011 at 5:01 pm
Hi Anne! Thanks for playing. From page 65 (this was one of my son’s favorite parts):
“That’s a whale!” he shouted. “A river whale!”
04/04/2011 at 5:12 pm
11. Because that’s my son’s age and he’s driving me to bankruptcy, going through books so fast.
04/04/2011 at 6:15 pm
Awesome. My son is 11 too, and I swear he reads three or four books a week. He’s read The Boy at the End of the World and loved it even more than Greg’s first book, Kid vs Squid.
(I think there’s another 11 entry, but if you both win I happen to have two copies of the ARC…) So! Page 11:
Fisher was only a few hours old and could not afford to die.
04/04/2011 at 5:17 pm
Number 6
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I love the book cover last books i read was unwind and the maze runner. Good luck everyone
04/04/2011 at 6:16 pm
It’s a great cover, isn’t it!?? Okay, here’s a line from page 6:
Tiny eyes glinted with pinprick light from the high tree boughs.
04/04/2011 at 5:45 pm
69, dude!
No, really–69.
04/04/2011 at 6:18 pm
Dude!!
Here’s a line from page 69 (let me know if you have to look up what it means to “gig a frog”) (I did):
He found a stiff piece of wire split into three sharp points, just perfect for gigging frogs.
04/04/2011 at 5:47 pm
I’m feelin’ page 87. 🙂
04/04/2011 at 6:20 pm
A very good feeling. Here’s a line from page 87:
A nervous mammoth was a restless mammoth, and a restless mammoth was a danger to the raft, so Fisher put a hand on his shoulder.
04/04/2011 at 6:19 pm
136
04/04/2011 at 6:23 pm
From page 136!
Broken.
04/04/2011 at 6:52 pm
126
04/04/2011 at 7:52 pm
Hi Dori! Here is a line from page 126:
The arm reached out and encircled Fisher’s throat.
04/04/2011 at 6:56 pm
37
04/04/2011 at 7:54 pm
Definitely a lucky number! Here is a line from page 37:
He was absorbed in these thoughts when he nearly tripped over a bone.
04/04/2011 at 7:53 pm
202 for our beautiful Grandmother:)
04/04/2011 at 7:56 pm
Hiya, Weazze! 202 is an excellent number. Here’s a line from that page:
And not just for your own sake, but for the benefit of your entire species.
04/04/2011 at 8:08 pm
147
04/04/2011 at 8:18 pm
Noted! Here is your line from page 147:
“They is coming to find our last colony, to destroy it, and end prairie dogs forever.”
04/04/2011 at 8:50 pm
11!
04/04/2011 at 8:51 pm
Ack! I think you’re the third page 11, and if your number is chosen I won’t have enough books to cover it. Would you mind choosing another number?
04/04/2011 at 10:48 pm
75
04/05/2011 at 7:24 am
Here is a line from page 75:
The feeding frenzy was over before Fisher could pull in his line, and the skeleton of his fish sank in a milky cloud of blood and fleshy flakes.
04/05/2011 at 8:18 am
P. 104 please. The middle point of the novel.
This is a great giveaway and I love the picture by the way, it looks like your doggie is enjoying your cover of you novel.
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04/05/2011 at 8:38 am
Exactly halfway through! One of my favorite moments in the book, too:
His thoughts danced with visions of fish and mollusks and sea mammals, and of the boats he might build to venture out over the shimmering sea.
04/05/2011 at 10:06 am
I will choose #96. Fingers crossed…
04/05/2011 at 10:10 am
Here’s a line from page 96. Good luck!
The mammoth’s trunk poked from the water like a snorkel.
04/07/2011 at 2:51 pm
Oh, what a GREAT contest! I love this idea!!
Can I have… number 154, please. 😀 Thanks!
04/07/2011 at 3:04 pm
Thanks for entering, Jen!!
Here’s a line from page 154:
“What else is in robot’s head?” she snarled, aiming her weapon at Click.
04/07/2011 at 4:01 pm
How about 119?
Thanks a ton!
04/07/2011 at 4:17 pm
You’re very welcome! Here’s a line from page 119:
“Do not worry, scowling human,” said the Intelligence.
04/07/2011 at 4:33 pm
Can I have 4 please, and My Son will be probably to old officially read the 4th magic thief book if it takes too many more years.
04/08/2011 at 7:28 am
I’m sorry MT4 is taking so long!! There’s nothing I can do about it, though. And if it’s any consolation, I get lots of mail from older readers, so maybe he’ll still be interested later. I hope so! And now for a line from page 4:
Fisher knew what death was.
04/08/2011 at 7:17 am
81 please. Thanks!
04/08/2011 at 7:26 am
Thanks for entering! Here’s a line from page 81:
He used this time to summon his courage.
04/08/2011 at 11:19 am
27. Thank you!
04/08/2011 at 3:20 pm
You’re very welcome! Here’s a line from page 27:
He’d caught a crayfish, and tonight he would have meat!
04/08/2011 at 6:02 pm
100! Missed talking with you =)
04/08/2011 at 6:07 pm
I’m so glad you entered, Natasha!! Send me an email sometime, let me know how you’re doing. Are your classes going okay this semester?
Anyway, here’s a line from page 100:
“Unfortunately, robot parts do not grow on trees.”
04/09/2011 at 12:26 pm
I love that line! =D I’ll totally email you a little later. It’s been busy, but good!
04/09/2011 at 7:43 am
138 for me please ! 😀
04/09/2011 at 7:50 am
You got it! Here’s a line from page 138:
“How are you supposed to help me survive and continue the human race if you can’t even make a splint?”
04/09/2011 at 8:04 am
Wow I don´t see that it is so early in your country.
In my country it is already 2:33 pm 😀
04/09/2011 at 8:07 am
Oh I’ve been up for hours! It’s nice writing in a quiet house before everybody else is awake.
04/09/2011 at 10:10 pm
189 please! It’s been my favorite number since forever – or at least for 11 years, since I’m 11.
04/10/2011 at 8:13 am
Awesome! I’m glad you didn’t choose 11, since three other people have already chosen it.
Here’s a line from page 189:
Enough life to make him dizzy, like millions of stars spinning in a moonless sky.
04/10/2011 at 4:30 pm
My 8yo (soon to be 9) chooses 99. Thanks! We LOVE your books. Glad to hear there’ll be a MT4, bummed to hear it’s going to take so darn long. On the bright side, we’ll read your others in the meantime.
04/10/2011 at 4:40 pm
99 is an excellent number! Thanks so much for the comment about the books, too. I WISH MT 4 were coming out this year, but it IS written, and hopefully it’ll be out sooner than I expect.
Now for a line from page 99:
Also, he just flat-out refused to live like a newt.
04/10/2011 at 8:30 pm
Oh, my. I think that’s the best line you’ve quoted so far . . . and there have been so many really good ones. I love the first lines of the book. Consider me hooked.
04/10/2011 at 8:38 pm
There are SO many great lines in this book! Picking just one per page has been difficult.
04/10/2011 at 8:53 pm
But a fun kind of difficult, no doubt.
My 8yo wants you to know that he picked 99 because it’s his favorite number. He likes to paint the number onto t-shirts so they look like jerseys. He thought you’d like to know that. 🙂
04/10/2011 at 9:01 pm
Yes, fun-difficult.
RE #99. I’m glad to know that! It was Wayne Gretzky’s number, too, in hockey.
04/10/2011 at 5:53 pm
4!!!!
04/10/2011 at 6:05 pm
Thanks for playing! Here’s a line from page 4:
One room was full of pods the size of his hand, thousands of them, and inside were bees and worms and butterflies.
04/10/2011 at 7:35 pm
Lucky #13!
04/10/2011 at 7:50 pm
I hope it will be good luck for you! Here is a line from page 13:
In all the hours since his birth he’d had nothing to eat.
06/06/2011 at 2:47 am
hey i currently live in Saudi Arabia, and i wonder if u’ll be surprised to know that your awesome books are sold here! A friend got me MT1 for a gift exchanging day, and boy have i loved it! i’m planning to get the 2nd and the 3rd as soon as i finish my exams(and ‘The Boy at the End of the World’ too)=D
anywhooo,my number is 5 =)
thank u HEAPS
06/06/2011 at 7:23 am
Hi Zainab–
Thanks for your comment! The contest is over, unfortunately, but I hope you can find a copy of Greg’s book over there. I’m thrilled to hear that you’re reading the Magic Thief books. Good luck with your exams!!
06/07/2011 at 9:25 am
Hullooo
yeah.. i noticed that it was over after i sent my message -blush- 🙂
thanks anyways u’ve really really made a lot of my days reading ur books in those ultra-boring examination days
thank u =D
09/07/2011 at 5:55 am
Page 16 🙂
09/07/2011 at 6:38 am
Alas! But I’ll be doing a contest for a Winterling ARC soon, so do check back.