Creation Science
A Fiction project in Vineyard Haven, MA by John Sundman ·
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Update #8: CALLING ALL ROCK STARS!
Posted on November 12, 2009
An old friend and new Creation Science backer writes,
"Living in Boston. Actually working on a bioterrorism-related project:
[redacted]. We use machine learning and text mining algorithms to
detect disease outbreak signals on the internet. V. sci fi. Can we get
a fictionalized appearance in the book? That'd be sweet."
My answer: FREEK YEAH, YOU CAN!
Anybody else out there who has potential material or ideas, please speak up: that's part of the whole kickstarter idea, init? (as we say in fake Cockney, because we've heard it on television).
Well, with five days or so left to go & with the balance standing at $6.3K or so, I'm afraid I'm not going to dally long to chat. Like the proverbial politician who has no time to legislate because she's so busy raising money so she can get re-elected to another term when she'll be too busy to legislate, I'm off to track down friends and media contacts and random passers-by to see if I can enlist their help in this project. THANK YOU MAJORLY to all who have backed the effort so far. I appreciate the money and I appreciate the vote of confidence. Thank you. The money raised so far is a great start, I'm very grateful, but it's not enough to see me through this project, to which I'm now morally committed. So, off I go to hustle, hustle, hustle. No time to say hello, goodbye, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.
Special thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman, jabberwock, Sarah Allen and ptw for their blog love.
This is the way the world works: "matey learn matey." (That's old Hawaiian pidgeon for how Hawaians learned English: each crew mate on a ship taught his other mates what he knew of the language.)
And so, mateys, please continue to learn your mateys about this project. Spread the word in person, in tweets & blogs and facebook and whatever.
I'll do my best to write a story worthy of your efforts.
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HEY TANKS. You will get to say "Thank you for making your other three books available for free, but here's two bucks anyway!" and I will say, "Hey, thanks!" Plus, you'll get to read my blog posts here & monitor developments on the new book.
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ONE AND ONE. One of Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices or The Pains shipped to you when this project has been funded, and Creation Science when it's done. (Shipping included in USA). I have lots of Pains, fewer of Acts and CCD. First come, first served. Please add $3 for personalized inscriptions in each book.
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POSTER PACK. Four copies of Creation Science inscribed any way you like, plus a signed poster of the book cover art. Size of poster and artist TBD, but you'll like it, I promise.
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MARTHA'S VINEYARD RETREAT. You and a friend can be my guest for a weekend next spring or summer at my house on Martha's Vineyard. Join me and my wife for three days and two nights at our tiny but friendly house in Vineyard Haven. You'll stay in our guest room; we'll provide breakfast, give you a guided tour of the island, lend you one of our cars for up to five hours, let you borrow our bikes, and you'll be the guest of honor at a dinner party for which Dear Wife Betty will prepare a meal of at least 5 courses. Includes one PATRON PACK.
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I'm the author of the novels Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices, and The Pains, all of which can be downloaded for free from wetmachine.com. I've also written a bunch of award-winning essays for Salon.
I've done famine relief & agricultural development work in west Africa (5 years), have spent 22 of the last 30 years in high tech (Silicon Valley & Boston areas), the other 8 years as truck driver, construction laborer, and novelist. I volunteer at a food pantry that my wife founded & runs, and I'm a volunteer firefighter.
John, I was just thinking, spurred by your mention of blog love, that this Kickstarter project really deserves a mention on boingboing.net. They've talked about you and your books before -- that may actually be how I discovered AotA years ago -- and Kickstarter is the kind of new creative collaborative approach stuff Cory & Co. like. And talk about exposure!
Greg,
I have submitted it to boing boing when the project was just getting going, but they didn't pick up on it.
Perhaps if a few people who were not the writer himself (hint, hint) were to submit a note to boing boing, they might put up a mention. I'll do it again, but I hope some other people (hint hint) will do so also.
It might be worthwhile to try the same gambit on Slashdot and Reddit and digg. All of those things will look better if they're coming from you guys, not me.