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This group is current mainly focused on raising awareness and calls to action for helping Ukraine in its war against Russia's colonialist aggression. To this end we also encourage as secondary focus:

Sharing Ukrainian Culture
Exposing Russian Compromised Companies/Media/Politicians and Narratives
Exposing the history of Russian Imperialism, under the current regime, under the USSR and under the Tsars.
Raising awareness of other countries suffering from Russia's Colonialist Agression (Chechnya, Syria, Georgia, Belarus, etc).

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Embroidered Worlds: Ukrainian Fantastic Fiction Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry this got posted multiple times. It wasn't working properly, so I deleted and re-posted. But then it got boosted to the rest of fedi after I'd deleted. I think the server was having some intermittent issues. So those posts links don't work 😬

I posted this over on Mastodon at the weekend, but it seems like a good thing to promote on this group too (apologies that my text is pretty much copy paste from my Mastodon post).

This Kickstarter for a Ukrainian science fiction anthology looks great.

They already secured a grant form the Ukrainian Book Institute for many stories from Ukrainian authors (and translations into English), and have passed the funding goal for printing (plus the first two stretch goals!).

Backing starts from as little as $1 for the ebook (or $20 plus international postage for a print copy).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/embroidered-worlds

The usual caveats apply to risk on Kickstarter projects of course - no guarantees that any project will succeed. However, this one is from an established indie publisher with a track record of delivering on multiple Kickstarters, so it seems reasonably solid.

Personally, I’d love to see it hit the $30k stretch goal to get some illustrations, that sounds very cool.

The publishers are on Mastodon too, which is always good to see: @[email protected] (and they replied to my post saying they’re happy to discuss any questions re: risks etc)

Backer Update 4 from yesterday - about the experience of being a writer at war - is incredibly powerful and worth reading too:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/embroidered-worlds/posts/3903203

#EmbroideredWorlds #Ukraine #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Books

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh this is really really cool, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're welcome! I agree it looks very cool. Can't wait for it to arrive!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For some reason I am not seeing initial posts boosted into Mastodon. Only replies. Not sure why. Maybe I made a mistake somewhere in the post and something about it prevents it being boosted into my timeline.

So this is a reply to a post about Embroidered Worlds - a Ukrainian science fiction Kickstarter project that's currently ongoing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow! Looks like an amazing project. I had a super busy last month and forgot to check in here. It seems they collected the amount and closed the fundraiser. Hopefully, this book will be available to buy later on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hi Dana. They have a page up on BackerKit now with ebook and print preorders, if you are still interested:

https://embroidered-worlds.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Preorders will be available until 12 November. $1 for the ebook, $20 for print (plus shipping; for me, to UK for two print copies, shipping - from America - came to another $18).

It says shipping is estimated for December.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Very happy they got it funded - and beyond, a few stretch goals too.

The way some of the goals were phrased makes me think it will be available beyond the Kickstarter, I believe the purpose of the campaign was to fund a print run rather than to buy a copy of the book. Will keep you updated if I learn anything else in the updates (I did back it, so they'll be sending updates about the printing process and so on).