Geekscape’s A Wrinkle in Time Contest! Tell Us All About Your Geek Dad and Win!
As geeks, we probably didn’t get this way without some really heavy parental influence. One of my greatest memories as a kid is of my father driving me from Austin to Dallas to compete in the Nintendo Championships. On a recent Geekscape episode, Guinness World Record holder Elizabeth Bolinger told all of us about how her father was an enthusiastic PC gamer. Now it’s YOUR TURN to tell us how YOUR DAD turned you into the geek you are today!
Geekscape has teamed up with the publishers of the upcoming 50th Anniversary edition of A Wrinkle in Time to give you a chance to win a copy of the new edition and a $50 VISA gift card. And all you have to do is write us a short essay explaining how your dad was a geek. In A Wrinkle in Time, main character Meg Murry seeks out on an adventure to find her lost scientist father, so we thought it would be cool to learn a little something about yours! Is he a World War II or automobile fan like mine? Does he play PC games like Elizabeth’s? Did he take you to your first comic book convention or to a screening of Return of the Jedi? Tell us in 1,000 words or less!
Rules:
– Essays must be 1,000 words or less!
– You have until MIDNIGHT PST on FEBRUARY 9th to email in your essays to Matt@geekscape.net
– Please include the Subject Heading A WRINKLE IN TIME CONTEST!
– You must be a U.S. citizen!
One winner will receive:
– $50 VISA gift card
– A copy of the 50th Anniversary edition of A Wrinkle In Time!
Alright! Get to writing! And be sure to follow the book on Facebook!
More info on about the 50th Anniversary edition:
The 50th Anniversary Commemorative edition features:
• Frontispiece photo*†
• Photo scrapbook with approximately 10 photos*†
• Manuscript pages*†
• Letter from 1963 Caldecott winner, Ezra Jack Keats*†
• New introduction by Katherine Paterson, US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature †
• New afterword by Madeleine L’Engle’s granddaughter Charlotte Voiklis including six never-before-seen photos †
• Murry-O’Keefe family tree with new artwork †
• Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery acceptance speech
* Unique to this edition
† never previously published
Overview:
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal.
