Our next giveaway is perhaps a bit less shiny, but no less substantive: we have five prize packs of four new steampunk books from Pyr. The package will contain four gorgeous specimens from this well-loved publisher, including The Strange-Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, which you may have read a portion of right here mere moments ago.
Here’s a list of the books in the prize package. Click on the title for more information:
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| Burton & Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder. September 2010. | The Horns of Ruin by Tim Akers. November 2010. |
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| The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire Book 1 by Clay & Susan Griffith. November 2010. | The Buntline Special: A Weird West Tale by Mike Resnick. December 2010. |
There’s one twist this time around: since we have five perspicacious Pyr prize packs, we’ll be giving away three right here and one each on Facebook and Twitter, so please feel free to stop by our other outposts on the web to increase your chances of winning.
And, one final detail: since the last book in the giveaway won’t be out until December, and Pyr won’t have copies until mid-November, winners will probably receive their prize packs a few weeks after the conclusion of the contest. Be steadfast!
The Official Rules: To enter, leave one comment on this post—duplicates won’t count—by Saturday, October 23, leave a comment in Facebook, or reply on Twitter. The 5 winners will be chosen randomly. Please check your email on October 23rd and 24th; if we don’t hear back from the winner in 24 hours, another winner will be chosen.
Great package!
All right. Let’s do this. Put my name in the hat please.
I love the covers on these; and the books all sound like great fun.
Add me I’m always looking for new titles for my book blog.
These all look like fantastic books. And what gorgeous covers they have… I’ve entered on Twitter for The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, but if possible, I would like to enter here for a chance to win one of the other three titles. :)
I love the books, would love to smell the new book smell.
I’m in
Tossing my top hat in the ring…
Sign me up.
Great prizes! Love the cover on The Horns of Ruin.
These books all look like a fun read. And the covers are definitely creative.
Wahoo – already steampunked, and it isn’t even noon (on the west coast)!
May Lady Random Chance smile upon me in this contest.
I would love to have more steampunk to read! Been reading the Parasol Protectorate and others…
captcha: astalk conditions – sounds steampunky to me
Gimme!
Comment!
That would be a perfect Christmas gift!! Great giveaway.
ooo… nice books
What a great offer. These all look great!
Ooooooooo Steampunk…
I hope I win!
Would love those! Count me in. :)
Pick me. :)
Books!
Very cool.
Agreed on the covers. Steampunk has good artists!
Such pretty things! Please count me in.
Steamy … and punky!
I’d like to participate please ;-)
So, can we enter all three places or just one entry overall?
Sweet! Even if I don’t win, the advance notice on these is very appreciated.
Steamy
Great looking books!
The electric coiled rapier on the Horn of Ruin cover is just full of win.
I would love these, especially the Resnick book.
Yay! sign me up for having entered! and I shall talk you on twitter as well! :)
They look interesting.
Entered with crossed fingers!
Yay for book giveaways!
All of these books look interesting, can hardly wait to read them.
Hope to win me some books! =)
Thanks!
Mike Resnick. Yay!
Cool, more books. I want…
Eh… let’s hope No. 42 does it, at last!
I like the looks of it, three of them I was thinking of reading and the fourth I had just been seeing.
Oooh…I want in on this! Seriously awesome prizes!
Ooh, steampunk books by authors I don’t know. Yes, please.
They look fantastic! I haven’t read a lot of steampunk, but I love what little I have read.
I think this is shiny enough for me!
Wow, I’m so glad to see new steampunk stuff! I can’t wait to read it.
Maximum pressure and to hell with the gauges! Dirigible aloft!
I’m in.
Looks awesome!
Books! Books are the shiniest of all!
I wouldn’t mind winning one of these.
Commenting! :D
Yay Steampunk fortnight. Nice collection of books you got here. Wouldn’t mind putting those words in my brain.
Giving it a shot. Good luck to all.
Cool!
Love all things Steampunk! Just read a great one titled “Dreadnought”.
Free books and they all look like good choices.
Looks like a great collection!
Pyr action goodness!
Hmm, my previous attempt at a comment was marked as spam. I have no idea why. I am a registered user.
Anyway, this is my entry.
Ooh pretty! I want! Count me in!
Pick me pick me pick me!
Pyr are great, keep up the good work Mr. Anders!
This is a great book package. I’d love to win it. Sign me up!
Books!
I would definitely like to enter this contest!
Yaaaay! Books to win, count me in!
Boing! Boing! Boing!
Indubitably, I say, these works of speculative fiction would be an admirably splendid addition to my library.
Books! I like them!
Very shiney! :D
Books for free…?
There once was man of old brass
His monocle lent him some class
But his rivets and plating
And wrought iron grating
Affected his center of mass
Steampunk rocks my world.
Booked!
Cool beans. I’m jumping in!
Sign me up, those covers are brilliant and I’m sure the books are awesome as well.
I’ve been wanting to read some steampunk but hadn’t done so yet. These look like a perfect selection for someone new to the genre.
*posts*
Steam!
Yes, please!
Oooooh! yummy looking books. I suspect I’ll buy them if I don’t win. :)
Pick me! Pick me!
How fun!
I would like free steampunk books!
Many Science Fiction/Fantasy books often melt together in terms of covers and themes. All of these choices look and sound fascinating and fresh. Regardless of this contest, I’ll be looking for them all this fall in no uncertain terms.
I love the variety represented here within the same genre. Great contest!
Look like some great titles. Sign me up
I’d like to enter the contest, if only Captcha would let me post….
[Raises hand]
I wouldn’t mind a free book.
Woo! Pretty books!
nice package :)
Great cover art! I love free books.
Consider this a COMMENT.
Nice selection of steampunk!
Yay for more books! My library is never complete.
Shiiiinnnyyyyy…
Looks great!
Steampunk is great. I’d love to win. Thanks for holding the contest.
Sounds great! I’d love to win these books!
I’d be happy to get these!
Count me in.
I suppose free books are a good enough reason for a first comment.
What a great, hard-working publishing company!
Those look very interesting.
I haven’t read those yet… send them my way! :-)
These look fantastic.
Okay, I’m in.
ummmmm…..obviously I want this!!!!
Three words:
Shiny (:
Flying.
Steampunk :D
Yes please.
You can count me in, good sirs!
Want steampunk. Gimme or I find a death ray.
How could one resist such a tempting offer? I, for one, cannot and shall not!
I’ll need my prescription goggles to enjoy these reads
Lady Luck, show me a favor today! I’ve been looking for something new and great to read.
Sounds really neat.
I rub my hands in intemperate glee. Hope to get my hands on them :)
I’m in. ^_^
Please Please Please
YAY steampunk!!! Let us have a Jolly Good Time with this fine assortment
Comment… thanks for having this~
I’m so excited!
even more yes than the last one, honestly.
Mmm, steamy goodness. They all look so good.
puts hand up . . . ‘me me’ -but seriously, a lovely giveaway
love the cover art, very adventuring, and I do love free giveaways of what look like great steampunky reads
Sweet package!
*Dons goggles for good luck*
i want a free book
Looks like some great reads =D
Sounds good I’d love to give them a read
Did someone mention books? Count me in!!
I have a recently found love of steampunk, and free books are always nice!
The covers look spectacular.
Must..Have….Books.
Comment-tastic.
I never win anything, but I am the eternal optimist and live in hope! Please enter me in the contest!
Just picked up the Strange Affair of Spring-heel Jack!
Look like some interesting books for my library
Ooooh yay! I love books! Exciting!
Would love to win these!!!
First I’ll read them, then they make excellent christmas presents.
Please count me in!
Love Steampunk!! Pick me! Pick me!
These look awesome!
Count me in too please!
Must devour books!
Lecanomancy.
Sirrah, Please include my name in your very fine contest. I will soon depart on the aehership HMS Franklin enroute to Syrtis Major, centre of the British Empire on Mars, but will return shortly before the conclusion of your contest. I look forward to hearing from you.
A fabulous selection of literature with appealing subject matter and visual aesthetic beauty to adorn a bookshelf and provide many hours of pleasure
I have all of these on my Amazon wishlist. Awesome package.
Mmmm, new Resnick.
Oooh these would make a great addition to my husband’s steampunk collection (and for his birthday too)! Its a-too good!
awesome, they look fantastic
Might as well…
One of my favorite publishers. Excited for all of these.
Definitely.
Consider my hat in the ring, good Sirs!
I like the Pyr SF lineup. Looking forward to these.
By all means, sign me up!
Really late to the Steampunk style, and I must say, better late than never. I am in love with it! Have always been a huge fan of Sci-fi books and movies, and also just about anything retro/ historical. These books would be AMAZING to get my grubby little hands on, as I attempt to steal away from the mini-humans running around the house! Brilliant, I say!!
Just starting to get into steampunk and this prize pack would be a lovely start. :)
If I don’t win, I will have to buy them…they look like must reads!
I’m excited ^.^
Love it!
Help improve my English! Don’t forget Poland!
I need some new books.
Love steampunk. Never read a book featuring it. These look very good.
Vampire Empire? What a title. Hahaha
I am in as well. Very much looking forward to see who wins.
I admit it, I primarily want these books because of the coat that the guy is wearing on the cover of Vampire Empire. The book must be read while listening to My Chemical Romance, on a rainy Seattle day.
Shallow? Me? No…
(Also, because Pyr is awesome, etc, etc, but… that -coat-.)
What’s better than steampunk fiction? Free steampunk fiction!
I’ve never had the chance to read any of these, but I really hope I manage to get lucky and find myself one. They look really interesting
Four books is shiny to me!
Books books books!
I would love to add these books to my library.
New books!
Lovely books, gimme!
A delightful collection, I’d be thrilled to get my hands on any of them.
Jolly good.
Thanks for the heads up on new steampunk books – I’m pressuring the local library to carry more.
I want them! Mine?
Ooh, shiny!
This looks like a great giveaway!
Oh, man, this is pretty sweet! Sign me up!
Commenting! Thanks for the chance!
More chances to win. How exciting
This looks like a great grouping!
i know the music and style. but i have not try the books and i would love to.
Ooh, I want them! Pyr is really putting out a lot of interesting books, and very often they also look great!
Count me in! Nothing like some steampunky goodness to brighten my day!
Count me in! Nothing like some steampunky goodness to brighten my day!
I’ve been into this from before Steampunk. I don’t feel nearly so…. off the wall as before. Brass, gizmos, Victorian duds, H.G. Wells, Carter of Mars. I’m in deep cream. A book a book yes a book would be grand.
Rollin’
Good luck to everyone entering the contest!
Pyr has the most amazing covers. I want!
Wahoo!
This is me leaving a comment, thanks
These would be great to add to our “Steampunk” collection at the high school library I work for in Australia! We have just set up a “Steampunk” display and the teenagers are reading them all.
It has been a while since I read some steampunk. Here is to hoping I win!
Very cool!
I would love to get my hands on these! Please drop my name in the hat as well! :)
Oh, my, shiny!
Count me in too!
Books? Sign me up please!
I like books and Steampunk, how convenient.
I’m an absolute Steampunk beginner, and would love this as an introduction to this world. . . . . .
books for me
Shiny, shiny books… :)
OOOhhh! Please!
These should be mine! All mine!
Oooooers! :)
A true and rightous treasure
Yes please my I have some more books
I’ll toss my bowler hat into the ring. These look very interesting indeed.
Great prizes! Here’s hoping I win!
Count me in.
I must expand my library w/ these books!!!
Definitely count me in…
what a great package! /rubs hands together/ can’t win if you don’t enter!
omg squee!
delicious, delicious books
Sigh. Free books.
please sign me up if this is open to Canada!
I would judge a book by its cover., and those books look delicious!
I would like a free book please.
I’m in, looks good!
Pick me! Pick me! :)
I just have to get my hands on Spring Heeled Jack, his origins are so old he almost pre-dates Steam Punk :-)
Excellent!
These books look great!
I like steampunk and Pyr is a great publisher.
Who does the cover art, those all look wonderfully awesome!
Wow, sweet covers – sold!
these look great!
Would love them all!
I’m a steampunk fanatic and a literature fiend to boot – I simply must have these books!
I’m in!
Yes please!
Pick me! Pick me!
I would love at least one of these books, will buy the rest…
Hubba hubba!
These look awesome!
Count me in…
Count me in
I’ve been looking forward to the Horns of Ruin anyway. Winning this would be awesome.
Please include me . This is a great package!!!
Count me in too
Nice set of books. Would love to get one of these myself…
Let the reading begin … w/luck.
Sounds like fun!
What a fantastic collection of books!
I too would enjoy these books. Thank you!
Count me in.
ohh, all these books look great. I hope I win.
Looks interesting.
Count me in!
How lovely! More fine reads to add to the education of my family.
Hmmmmm! Count me in too. Steampunk fiction is something I haven’t had the priviledge of reading yet and would dearly love these books.
Looks great!!
I’m a steampunk virgin :)
Great books, looking forward to reading them!
Ooooh! Great prize I’m really enjoying reading Steampunk books!
Yes, grand adventure.
mm, steammpunnkk.
Looking forward to reading these!
Steampunk: one of the most creative sub-genres of Science Fiction. I get so excited when I can read a good Steampunk novel and get those creative juices flowing. It helps me get through the drudgery of my engineering homework. Go Steampunk!
Mmm, fun!
Sounds like a really good time! =)
Pyr. Cool.
how exciting..looks to be wonderful books !!!
I’m looking forward to reading these books. Can’t wait till they are in the mail to me.
Count me in. Cannot get enough Steampunk.
ooh, nice contest, would love those books
Yay books!
Wow! All of those look like fun!
I could really use some new books.
What?!
I didn’t bark at this?
What was I thinking?
Woof™.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Would definitely love to give these a try.
Not much of a chance at this point, but let’s give it a go!
Tossing my hat in as well. Thank you.
OOO not as physically shiney as the RockLove but Bookshelf SHINEY!
Name. Hat. Please. Thank You!
Resnick Steampunk, must be entertaining.
count me in!! Will have to make a comment on the twitter as well… filling fast, wow!
I like books with covers that look like movie posters. Please enter me.
Ooooohhhhh yeah!
Here’s to hoping. I could do with some good steampunk books. My exposure to the genre just consists of random images, as yet.
Pyr’s stable of books just gets better and better… Lou Anders is the man…. Hope to get them in some way
Oooh wow, I would love these books :D
Always open to free books!
See you at the Faire in Brooklyn on Sunday! xoxo
I’m in! pick me!
Please add me to the drawing!
Books!
Pick me!
Crossing my fingers!
Maybe this time…
Oh, do I love those typefaces!
I am definitely interested! I’ve been wanting to read the Spring-Heeled Jack book for some time now, and the others sound very good as well.
gotta win one of these eventually!….right????
:)
I am in. Sooner or later I should win.
I love free books! Sign me up!
I don’t have enough SteamPunk books. Need more.
I think I would enjoy these a great deal
I hope I win
The new Mike Resnick looks interesting as do the others.
The Books look very interesting
Very interesting.
Woot woot! Pyr always has awesome cover art. . .
Great! Give it to me.
stud
looks like some great new titles!
sign me up
The game’s afoot…..
I’ve been wanting that Hodder book since I first saw that in the bookstore.
Wow! What awesome books. I have heard of Springheeled jack – and was really keen to find a copy and read it – but the other two sound just as wonderful.
I would love to read all of these! More Steampunk please!!
Oh, I am intrigued.
At this point my chances are less than one in 100, but I have to try…
I haven’t read any of these authors. Please take away all of my excuses.
Alright another contest! Thanks Tor!
Put my name in the hat as well.
Very cool looking books. I’m in.
I’m all about free books! Sign me up!
Especially love the cover art for Horns and Buntline, would love to add them to my reading list!
I want these four books!
Steampunk FTW!
Help a poor student who has no money to buy pretty bookses?
Not enough room on my bookshelf…but I still want them!
[O].[O]
Great contest! ANd Great books!
Those covers look great. So good, that I want to enter a competition.
Hell yes! Sign me up :)
Awesome! Yes, please!
Yay! I love steam punk. Me please!
Great books!
Oh, yes please :)
YES!
Yay! Books!
Awesome giveaway of some great books! Thanks for the chance to win.
Waaaaah! I want them all! :)
One can never have too many books :)
Looks fantastic!
Maybe these are good steampunk fiction!
I’m in. Really looking forward to Greyfriar and Buntline Special.
Please count me in!
OhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhplease….
Looks interesting!
I’d like to win:)
Great selection. I’d love to read these (and with my budget, this is the only way…)
Ooh, pretty books!
Yes, please.
I want the pretty Steampunk books. Please!!!
Most Excellent of a Giveaway
Gorgeous covers! Can’t wait to check these out!
Sweet package! Yummay!
WOOT! more steampunk books HOORAY! these look like a great gift for my fiance for Christmas!
Looking forward to the Resnick, especially.
Oooh, shiny!
Very cool, sign me up!
I need some steampunk to read so I can see if I’m really missing out on something here!
“Spring-Heeled Jack” was a fun read. Ran through it in a weekend, every free moment. Glad to hear that a sequel is coming!
Sounds great! I’ll throw my name in the hat.
That is one fine looking set of steampunk, I’ll throw my hat in the ring for this prize. Excellent!
Enter’d.
Looks like some great books. Thanks for the chance to win.
Books!
Sign me up!
Those books look great.
yes please
Oh, boy, I hadn’t even realised there were so many Steampunk titles due out !
I’m drooling! Those books look great! Now I’ll have to add them to my list.
Good grief, that’s a lot of comments! I’ll throw my name in. Those books look good.
Follow you on Twitter and love ya!
That’s-uh one spicy-uh meat-uh-ball-uh! I want!
Wow, what a great giveaway.
Kudos also to the cover artists!
All the best,
RKCharron
Great giveaway. Of course I had to enter.
No Comment!
I’m in. Great package
This looks fabulous *o*
Oh wow. I want. (I’ve got Spring-Heeled Jack, but the others look delicious!)
Hooray for free books! Looking forward to reading Spring Heeled Jack.
Sign me up!
JimR
An excellent prize pack! Thanks for the opportunity.
All of those are on my Amazon wishlist. Till I can afford them. Please count me in.
Sounds like a good light read.
LOVE Steampunk!
Excellent idea for a prize :D
Need more steampunk novels on my bookshelves!
Very nifty – entering here and on Twitter!
Ah my good man I shall indeed win this contest for im in quite need ofr medical tomes…..
Today’s thesaurus entry – Steampunk, see epic win.
I could always use a new steampunk book.
i ADORE stepampunk. please pick me!
I say, I would heartily enjoy the consumption of one of those there pieces of literature!
Great giveaway!
Please enter me.
I’m in! Let’s do this…
I’ve been eyeing these books for a while (though I’ve put them on my Christmas wish-list for my family to buy for me), and would love to win them.
Dreaming of winning some books.
Free is good.
Yes please! I sooo need some escapsim!
Me too!
Looks so awesome!!
Mmmm yummy steampunk novels…..
I’m in, at the risk of getting hooked on a new series.
I’m new to steampunk and I am HOOKED! Would love these books!
Seriously tasty selection…
Some mighty fine looking books there :)
complete covet! my fingers will be crossed.
These look Awesome! Hope I win!
I love Steampunk. This is a great giveaway.
This is exciting! These books look great.
Please enter me in the giveaway! Thanks!
woot. I heart giveaways!
Alright, free Steampunk novels. I’ll save me some money!
This is just tempting enough to draw out my first comment ever on Tor.com!
woot. :)
me please!
I’m in!
Pick me!!1!
please
Oh jeez I won’t even have time to read these on top of my existing stack, but lordy do I want them.
Those look yummy. :)
This week is getting better and better!
I could always use more books, and I’ve been waiting for Spring Heeled Jack for a while.
This is a great giveaway!
Bring on the books!
Yay for contests!
Please!
This would be a fun contest – I don’t think I’ve ever read any of those authors.
So many authors left to be read!
I am so enjoying this whole Steampunk Movement. If I don’t win thsi package I’m going to have to pick up a few of those titles.
Just got a kindle, but it’d be remiss of me not to keep obtaining paperbacks as well, not least to help keep the house insulated over the winter.
These books all look awesome!
These are free books.
Yes, put my name in.
wow this is a lot of comments….
I’d like to enter!
Those look like really good books.
Michael Dirda wrote a very nice review of The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack earlier this week in the Washington Post. I’m very curious.
Ooh, great, if I win, I will have more books to read.
Gotta love steampunk fortnights!
An excellent prize pack. Sign me up!
Nice package. Pyr is the best.
These look like great books to add to my Steampunk collection, toss my name in to the list!
i’m in :)
seems a great selection
Excellent! Go Pyr!!!!!
All up in this mix like a steampunk-ish somethin’-whatsit.
Now, these look like some fine titles, and very generous of Pyr to give so many prize packs!
I’m super interested and need a new book!
Oh even if I don’t win I’ll have to look for those novels…except maybe Vampire Empire…
Cool! Count me in!
Go ahead [Steam]punk, make my day…
Yes, please!
Yeah! Saddle up and let off some steam!
Yeah! Saddle up and let off some steam!
I would very much enjoy winning one of these packages. Thanks for running these giveaways — they are fun!
Want muchly.
Thank you thank you!
this would be nice
Shiny enough!
Shiny enough!
Count me in!
Steampunk fires my boiler
sign me up
Ooh the steamy shine! Count me in, please!
Please sign me up, for it sounds most excellent! :)
I never say “no” to the opportunity to win books and these look fascinating.
Awesome — what a nice introduction to the world of Steampunk !!!
Looks wonderful. Would love to read those!
They do look like fascinating books. I’d love to get a book before my friend Jackie does for once.
Oooo… just saw this, stick my name in the hat please!
These all look utterly brilliant. Absolutely loving the cover for the Mike Resnick. Enter me please.
Even if I’ll not prove lucky enough to win these, they will definitely be added to my list of future book purchases.
Count me in!
Free books! :D
Cool books!
Great stuff! Count me in.
-NewGuyDave
Oh yes please, I’m rather desperately looking for new things to read.
Please enter me too!
oooooooohh!
The Horns of Ruin or The Buntline Special, please! I have a self-proclaimed “Adventure Girl” daughter (aged 5) to pass it along to one day after I am through reading it!
Count me in thanks
I so want to sew that dress on buntline special cover
A Resnick steampunk? What HO!
Free books are good! More free books are better!
Oooh, I’m in !
Too late? I hope not!
These look interesting.
Oh, please don’t let me be too late!!
Hopefully the deadline is midnight.
Cool contest! Thanks!
Wow…just came across this awesome site and I catch an awesome contest just in time! NICE!!
Hope I’m not too late. I would love to get these books :-)
Hoping to sneek in under the wire!
Oooh, sign me up please! I’ve been eyeing the Mike Resnick books, though the other two look interesting…. :-)