We're not done yet!!! More books (maybe)!!!
Hey there Singularity Supporters. With just under 5 days to go in our Kickstarter campaign, over 900 supporters and nearly 240% of our funding goal in our futuristic hyper-piggybank, you may think that we here at Singularity&Co are content to glide towards the goal like a player from the robotic leagues on the maglev track between third and home. But we're not done yet!
We've spent the past few days cataloging many, many spectacular books, most of which were new to us if in fact quite old in reality, as well as crunching the numbers using some very advanced hyper dimensional math. We've also scanned, converted, cleaned up more than one "test" books, and done most of the legwork on clearing two titles for publication (so far). Based on that, we've got an offer that not even an android could refuse:
If you all help spread the word, and get us to $45k, we're willing to step it up on our end, and commit to clearing and releasing an additional 6 books in the next 12 months (if not more).
To be completely honest, we're already planning to step up the pace of releases, but if we have that much in the bank (not counting our unbelievably generous matching funds offer), we can very comfortably commit to rescuing more books, sooner. That means that our $10 supporters would be able to count on 18 books for their money, and our $25 supporters can count on 18 books in the first year.
If you or anyone you know is on the fence about our campaign, please keep in mind that while you will be able to find our releases on all the major publishing platforms, as well as our website, supporting this Kickstarter is the only way to be sure that you will be able to receive all of our releases for a year ($10) or forever ($25) for virtually nothing.
So spread the word, and help us reach our new and improved goal!
In the meantime check out some of the hundreds and hundreds of books we've been cataloging in preparation for the rescue effort to begin in earnest, as well for as the opening of the Singularity&Co bookshop, which is on track to happen in the next 45 days both online, and in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
Save the scifi!
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- Cici James 555 friends
- Website: singularityand.co
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Our eternal gratitude.
Estimated delivery: Apr 2012Pledge $10 or more
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Early (free) access to our downloads for 1 year.
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998 backers
Early (free) access to our downloads for life
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All of the above, plus early access to new, old, and rare physical sci fi books before they go on sale to the public in our online store.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $75 or more
56 backers
All of the above, plus two random sci fi books in the mail and a yet-to-be-defined piece of Singularity & Co. swag.
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70 backers
All of the above, plus a super cool T-shirt screenprinted with a vintage sci fi book cover image.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $250 or more
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All of the above, plus one year of membership to our random vintage sci fi book-of-the-month club. We'll mail you one old, used, rare, out of print scifi book in the mail every month for a year. Whether you want us to or not.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $750 or more
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All of the above, plus lending library privileges in our soon-to-open bookshop in Brooklyn, NY.
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All of the above, plus first page acknowledgement in the digital copy of the second book we save.
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All of the above, plus first page acknowledgement in the digital copy of first book we save.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $5,000 or more
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All of the above, plus a key to the sci fi bookshop, upon opening. Hang out, treat it like your living room.
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All of the above, plus a year of first page acknowledgments in the first twelve books we digitally rescue, assuring that the sci fi universe knows that this project would not be possible without you.
Estimated delivery: May 2012
Comments
Creator GreggInCA on April 20, 2012
I have a number of books by science fiction masters--Clifford Simak and Cordwainer Smith come to mind--and I'd be glad to give them to you if you can use them. Please let me know if you're interested.
Creator Skevos Mavros on April 12, 2012
Another vote here for the covers.
Creator JSS_606 on March 31, 2012
Could you do Colin Kapp? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kapp
His unothrodox engineers and Transfinite man was some of the best old school scifi out there.
Also Lester del rey - its hard to find his works nowadays and one short story in particular - "For I am a jealous people".
Thanks.
P.S. Will you be preserving the old covers as well?
Creator Singularity&Co. on March 29, 2012
Hey Steve - we are definitely intrigued by The Moon Colony.
Creator Steve Fenwick on March 28, 2012
Various recommendations, if they are available or can be made so:
* Anything by H. Beam Piper. I have them all, but they don't get enough attention. Not so much the Fuzzies as the various Time Police eps. A retrospective that combines similar stories (e.g., the various gunpowder plots) in one volume would be great.
* I have a copy of "The Moon Colony" in hardcover by William Dixon Bell that I might be willing to lend to The Cause if you're interested. Reads like a pulp; pre-War.
Creator James Dalley on March 28, 2012
35 cents for a book ... wish they were still that cheap. I guess though since I signed at the $25 for life level they eventually end up being that cheap for me too...
Creator Tomimt on March 28, 2012
I knew it paid off to up my pledge :D
Creator Singularity&Co. on March 27, 2012
Thanks AndonSage. We were happy to discover that the Murray Leinster books are available a few days ago, as they were amongst our early candidates. Working like crazy to get a gallery of a few hundred more up.
Creator AndonSage on March 27, 2012
Nice :) For those that don't know, Kenneth Bulmer is most famous for, I think, the Dray Prescot series (writing as Alan Burt Akers). As for Murray Leinster, he's a favorite over at Baen (http://www.baenebooks.com/s-71-murray-leinster.aspx), where they have his Baen-published books available for free.