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.
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).
There was a Q&A with Mstyslav Chernov, director of 20 Days in Mariupol, after the screening. Available on their Youtube channel:
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 the Ukrainian Film Festival 2023, this weekend in London.
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.
You're welcome! I agree it looks very cool. Can't wait for it to arrive!
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
Agree, the delivery cost from Ukraine is quite expensive for one book. But I noticed you can add multiple books for same delivery (at least I checked up to ten books), so if you know other people who want the book - buying together will reduce the delivery cost per book (if that makes sense?).
Myself, I want to get it in English and Ukrainian (not that I can read well enough yet, but I aspire to so why not). But, it seems the Ukrainian and English version did not share the same cart, so I need to email them to find out how I do it.
Sorry I've not been around much the recent weeks.
Thanks for sharing this, the book looks great, and really good way to support Maksym.
The square brackets around the hashtags followed by regular brackets and URLs should be interpreted by the client as URLs with link text whatever is in the square brackets - markdown is how it is formatted to do this.
So like:
[#tree](https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tree?src=hash) should read #tree in the client.
Strangely, viewing the post here on blahaj.zone, the tree and moss links do display like that, but lichen does not - I suspect because the length of the title (including full URL links) exceeds the allowed title length so it stops parsing the text.
Glad you enjoyed it! They have a bunch of other videos on the channel that sound interesting, just not had the time to watch any of them.
You either have not spent any time reading through the evidence, or are willfully distorting the truth.
Considering their entire argument was to assert with zero evidence it was Ukrainians who did it, then to claim all the evidence showing otherwise is unreliable and we'll never know the truth, I think we can probably answer with a reasonable degree of confidence they are purposefully seeking to mislead.
Believe it or not I did contact the Ukrainian embassy here in London to ask if they had any information about them, but unfortunately did not hear back. I'm sure replying to randos on the internet was not their highest priority of course! But still, I wouldn't mind knowing.