{"id":114790,"date":"2020-08-20T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=114790"},"modified":"2020-09-13T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T19:00:00","slug":"competition-win-a-copy-of-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/competitions\/competition-win-a-copy-of-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition: Win a copy of XX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/the-power-of-typography-by-rian-hughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rian Hughes&#8217;<\/a> novel, graphic <em><strong>XX<\/strong><\/em> is a strikingly visual concept that takes the reader on an epic and unexpected journey, and to celebrate its release, we have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>two<\/strong><\/span> copies to give away to you lovely <em><strong>SciFiNow<\/strong><\/em> folk!<\/p>\n<p>But first, here is a synopsis of the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Jodrell Bank a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin has been detected. Artificial Intelligence expert Jack Fenwick thinks he can decode it. But when he and his associates at Hoxton tech startup Intelligencia find a way to step into the alien realm the signal encodes, they discover that it\u2019s already occupied \u2013 by ghostly entities that may come from our own past.<\/p>\n<p>Have these \u2018DMEn\u2019 (Digital Memetic Entities) been created by persons unknown for just such an eventuality? Are they our first line of defence in a coming war, not for territory, but for our\u00a0<i>minds<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p><i>XX<\/i>\u00a0presents a compelling vision of humanity&#8217;s unique place in the universe, and of what might happen in the wake of the biggest scientific discovery in human history.<\/p>\n<p>As compelling as it is visually striking, Rian Hughes&#8217; first novel incorporates NASA transcripts, newspaper and magazine articles, fictitious Wikipedia pages, undeciphered alphabets, and &#8216;Ascension&#8217;, a forgotten novelette by 1960s counterculture guru Herschel Teague that mysteriously foreshadows events.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapping stories within stories, Rian Hughes\u2019\u00a0<i>XX<\/i>\u00a0unleashes the full narrative potential of graphic design. Drawing on Dada, punk and the modernist movements of the twentieth century, it ask us who we think we are \u2013 and where we may be headed next.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for your mind has already begun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To win your very own copy of <em><strong>XX<\/strong><\/em>, simply answer the question below!<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode\"><p class=\"expiredComp\">*** Competition Expired ***<\/p><\/p>\n<div class=\"buttonContainer\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/rian-hughes\/xx\/9781529020595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018XX\u2019 is out now in the UK from Picador,<\/a> and in November from Overlook Press in the US.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enter our competition to win a copy of Rian Hughes&#8217; amazing visual spectacle, XX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":114776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,11],"tags":[3491],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/XX.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}