Okay, so it’s time to vote for the next Manual of Aeronautics art reveal. But first, my appearances at San Diego Comic Con have been finalized. There will be two signings, one panel, and two Cool Random Things. Keep reading to find out what those are.
Thursday July 12
noon-1PM
Signing at Mysterious Galaxy Booth #1119
I’ll be signing and chatting to anyone who drops by, and there will be plenty of my books for sale. SPECIAL RANDOM THING: Mysterious Galaxy may have secret advanced copies of The Manual of Aeronautics, which you can actually buy! There will be a code word or something. (Check back here to see if this becomes a real thing, rather than a thing that didn’t really happen, because I dreamt it.)
UPDATE: Yeah, this is real. Twelve copies only. First twelve peeps in line for this signing gets to buy one each. (The code word is “WEASEL-FACE”!)
Saturday, July 14
4:00-5:00PM
Me having coffee with you.
That’s right. SPECIAL RANDOM THING 2 is that during Comic Con I will announce a phone number via this blog and my twitter (@scottwesterfeld). Text the name “SCOTT” to this number to be automatically entered into a contest. The winner of this contest will have coffee with me on Saturday at 4PM, at Comic Con. Or maybe instead of coffee we will saunter across the convention floor and pose with Full Metal Alchemist cosplayers. That is the sort of thing that would be fun. (I asked, and you will NOT be signed up for spam by entering this contest. But you will received a text asking you to opt in for more “news and offers.”)
UPDATE: New rules: Just go by the Simon & Schuster booth (#1138) to find out how to enter.
Sunday July 15th
12:00-1:00PM
Room 25ABC
I’m on a panel called: Whatβs Hot in YA, with Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures series), Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me), Lish McBride (Necromancing The Stone), Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone), Melina Marchetta (The Lumatere Chronicles), Myra McEntire (Hourglass series), James Dashner (The Maze Runner series), and moderator Nathan Bransford (Jacob Wonderbar series). After the panel is another signing:
Sunday July 15th
1:30-2:30PM
Autograph area AA09 in the Sails Pavilion
Signing with me will be all the people above, plus bonus guest Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky). My books will be for sale here too, but I can’t guarantee there will be any Manual of Aeronautics left.
And finally, if you’re in Sydney instead of San Diego, you might want to check out my wife Justine’s book launch for Team Human:
Thursday, July 12
6:30-7:30PM
Kinokuniya Sydney
Lvl 2, The Galeries, 500 George Street
Sydney, Australia 2000
Justine will be in conversation with the lovely and talented Margo Lanagan. Come say hi! It’s free and stuff. Click here for the event details on Facebook.
AND NOW FOR THE VOTINGS
This will be the all-beastie extravaganza! Would you rather see . . .
1) The mighty Behemoth!
2) The fearsome spike-pooing flechette bat!
3) Or the all-knowing message lizard!?!
How do you even DECIDE such a thing when the choices are so awesomely Thompson-esque?
Oh right. You decide by voting—by number, please. And as always, feel free to use this comment thread to debate and inveigle your co-commenters.
Let the voting begin. See some of you at SDCC.
2! we never get to see the bats up close in the books!
2!!
2
Who wouldn’t want to see spike pooping bats!
1 please
2!!!
2. You never see the flechette bats.
2
Um,2, fo sho. Still stumping how a tiny mammal can safely squeeze sharp metal through its rectum *dunno*
ONE! Behemoth!!! π
1! Because biggest beastie is baddest. ;D (The good kind of bad)
I wish I could go to Comic-Con.
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BATS!
2.
I vote for 1 the mighty behemoth
2! I wants the bats! My curiosity is killing me.
1!
I hate getting my picture taken but I would love to take pictures with you and FMA cosplayers. Sounds like so much fun. Why did I have to spend all my money at Anime Expo? Now I’m going to miss Comic Con. π Are you going to Comic Con again next year?
2!
I’ve wanted the spike-pooing bat since the last time it was nominated! Can’t wait to check out that alimentary canal!
THIS IS SO HARD. D: I want to see all beasties up close. :c Hmmm, but I would have to agree with everyone else.
#2! (Just so we can see those pesky little critters up close. π
2 please. Bats about bats!
Hmm…this is a tough choice…
But I’ll go with
Hmm…this is a tough choice…
But I’ll go with #3 because I’ve always wondered how the bats are able to swallow metal spikes.
Sorry, I meant #2.
#1!
1.
2. PLEASE. ME WANTS SOME BATS.
2.
no one else has chose it, I’m going to say 3
1 the behemouthis so cool
#2! Bats please!
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#2!
It was a hard decision between 2 and 3 but, although I’m more interested in the message lizards, the flechette bats are harder for me to picture in my mind.
BEHEMOTH!!!!!!!!!
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2
2!! i want one of those bats as a pet and then it can protect me
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Yeah, I don’t know what it is either.
2~
Seen pics of the others, can’t wait to see these ‘lil fellas!
Three; the lizards.
1. Behemoth!
Numbah One!!!!!!!!! Behemoth!
1 please Scott.
1!!! BEHEMOTH!!!!
2! Bats!
SO TOTALLY 2!!! and do we get to see its metal-proof gutts, too?
#1!
2!
I might actually get to see the one I voted for, for once.
2) The fearsome spike-pooing flechette bat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 please!
We already have a colored picture of a messenger lizard in the top right corner of this very page.