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Minotauro launches web sites, multiple book trailers, and reader contests in support of Spanish edition of Jeff Carlson’s Plague Year. This week, European publisher Minotauro released Jeff Carlson’s science fiction thriller Plague Year worldwide in Spanish as La Plaga, in hard cover, backed by a spectacular promotion campaign. One of the many web sites created for the book is http://www.scyla.com/laplaga/ which boasts not only three book trailers made at Minotauro’s expense, the site also features a series of blog entries purported to be written by Ruth Goldman, the fictional nanotech researcher who is one of the novel’s main characters. In addition, the site features other blogs, a nanotechnology video and related biotech links, a Facebook fan club, fan forums, and contests with cash prizes up to 100 Euros, including one for the best story-related photos taken and submitted by readers. More unusual, Minotauro has, in tandem with travel site www.muchoviaje.com, launched a tie-in contest in which, if readers correctly answer several questions about La Plaga, they will be entered into a raffle drawing. The grand prize is an all expenses paid, seven days, six nights vacation to Aspen, Colorado, because the Rockies are featured prominently in the novel as some of the only safe ground above a nanotech plague that devours all warm-blooded lifeforms beneath 10,000 feet elevation — or, in this case, 3048 meters. Originally published by Ace in North America, free excerpts of Plague Year and its new sequel, Plague War, can be found on Carlson’s web site at www.jverse.com, along with other free fiction, tour dates, blog, and more.
Praise for the Plague novels: "Part Michael Crichton, part George Romero, Jeff Carlson's Plague Year is deft and compelling, full of high-altitude chills." "An exceptional, gripping debut that exposes the worst and best of humanity while maintaining a constant tension level that will keep the pages turning to the very end. The personal and political machinations are credible, the characters are well developed and the climax satisfying. This apocalyptic view of nanotechnology provides plenty to think about."
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