Congrats to Gianfranco (@gchicco), Debbie (@snax) and Brett (@bretto) who won!

They all won a copy of, Dark Matter, which deals with a scientist who is kiddnapped by aliens to help win an intergalactic war:

Dark matter, the invisible substance that constitutes the bulk of all matter in the universe, remains one of science’s greatest mysteries.

• But what if it actually is nothing more than ordinary matter purposely hidden from our view?
• What if we are only allowed to see a small fraction of the stars in our galaxy, because the vast majority of star systems are teeming with aliens who wish to remain unseen?

Marc Zemin, a brilliant student of astrophysics, is the first human to ever stumble upon this startling secret, when his experiments with wormhole travel cause aliens to land on Earth and whisk him away into space. To his astonishment, the aliens want his help in fighting a colossal galactic war that is rapidly spiraling out of control. But as he struggles to survive from battle to battle across the farthest reaches of the galaxy, he begins to uncover a horrifying conspiracy at play, striving to keep the warring civilizations in continuous conflict with each other. A desperate race against time ensues, as he and a handful of newfound alien friends try to stop the war and confront this mysterious, powerful force bent on destroying all life in the galaxy.

I gave away the book for the person who guessed all the video clips correctly.  There was an alcohol + sleep deprivation glitch which caused the Star Trek intro to play with all the others!  Thankfully, the audience laughed and I gave out books to Gianfranco, Debbie and Brett.  They will have the choice of ordering the real book or the Kindle version.

Looking forward to what they think of this science fiction adventure novel!

I’ll be posting more about my SXSW panel, “How Sci-Fi Shapes The Internet” in the next week after I catch up on sleep!

The Twitter and Flickr hashtag is #sci-fishapestheinternet