Web Round-Up: Contests, Giveaways, & Freebies Edition

• Suvudu.com adds Terry Brooks’ Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD! to its free library. (via A Dribble of Ink)
• The first season of Veronica Mars is online for free through June 29, when it will be replaced by season two.
• Un:Bound is giving away a copy of Hunter’s Prayer, an urban fantasy/thiller by Lillith Saintcrow. NB: She never says if it’s only open to UK residents or if other countries can join in the fun. Ends this Friday, June 12.
• Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book Reviews is giving away copies of three anthologies: Ages of Wonder, stories that take place throughout time, not just in the standard future or past settings; Other Earths, tales of alternate history; and Swordplay, which focuses on all the incarnations of that beautiful weapon. Ends June 12, North America only.
• Slice of SciFi is giving away two copies of The Strain, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hagan’s vampire thriller. Ends June 15, North America.
• Like cherry blossoms / Haiku contests are fleeting / Win The Warded Man

• Now through June 17, you can get a 50% discount at Nightshade Books when you order four or more books. They have great stuff—I’ve got my eye on Jeff and Ann Vandermeer’s pirate anthology and John Joseph Adams’ Sherlock Holmes anthology. (via Adventures in Reading)
• Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book Reviews is also giving away five copies of The Wolverine Files. Ends June 19, North America.
• Slice of SciFi is giving away one print and one audio copy of the John W. Campbell story “Who Goes There?”, the basis for the John Carpenter movie The Thing. The print copy includes a 1978 screen treatment by William F. Nolan. Ends June 20, North America.
• Realms of Fantasy is back, and the first 200 (US) bloggers who want to review it can have a free copy.
• Fantasy & Science Fiction has about two dozen copies for bloggers in North America.

And if anyone knows of contests and giveaways in other countries, please post them here!