Soon , there will be a little more Philip K. Dick in the world , thanks to a short motion picture adaption of “ The Crystal Crypt , ” Dick ’s tale of a brewing war between Earth and Mars . That ’s just one of many exciting projects seem for a crowdfunding rise this calendar week , alongside a card engagement biz in which creativity is key , a wondering fiction anthology about the masses at the margin of chronicle , and print edition of kung - fu and transhumanist webcomics .
Top image from The Tomorrow Girl : Dresden Codak Volume 1 .
The Tomorrow Girl : Dresden Codak Volume 1 : Aaron Diaz’sDresden Codakis perhaps the greatest celebration of transhumanism in webcomics . His first print variant collects the early stories of cyborg scientist Kim Ross , including“Hob,”“Advanced Dungeons & Discourse,”and the haunting“Lantern Season,”as well as stand - alone comic like“Caveman Science Fiction . ”For a $ 10 pledge , you ’ll receive a PDF of The Tomorrow Girl , but if you ’re a fan of Diaz ’s art , it ’s worth checking out the print awards he has at the higher pledge level .
Long Hidden : Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History : This anthology of speculative fable stories will focus on characters who exist at the margins of history :
People with less ability , money , or status - enslaved people , indigenous multitude , multitude of colour , queer people , laborers , cleaning woman , hoi polloi with disabilities , the very young and very old , and spiritual minorities , among others - are relegated to the margins . Today , mainstream history continues to perpetuate one - sided versions of the yesteryear while mistelling or erasing the stories of the rest of the macrocosm
Long Hidden will collect science fiction , fantasy , and revulsion stories localise from the 1400s through the other 1900s , redact a stranger spin on chronicle and the type of characters often ignore in diachronic fabrication . writer like Ken Liu , Alaya Dawn Johnson , and Amal El - Mohtar are already on plug-in to posit stories , and the anthology will be open to general submission once the Kickstarter campaign ends — and it pays . For a $ 10 toast , you ’ll have an ebook of the completed anthology .
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The Crystal Crypt : ground on a unretentive story by Philip K. Dick : Shahab and Shahram Zargari are looking to fetch Philip K. Dick’s“The Crystal Cave”(which is in the public orbit in the US ) to life as a light film . The story take place on a spaceship traveling from Mars to Earth while the two planets are on the wand of warfare . The short will asterisk Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt , who are best known for their voice - acting oeuvre . ( Lowenthal vocalise Ben Tennyson in the Ben 10 cartoons . ) There ’s some pretty intriguing yield art for this project , and the sets have already gotten a test campaign in the Judith Hill video on the left . For a $ 25 toast , you ’ll encounter a digital download of the film and an ebook of the storyboards .
STORY WAR : The Storytelling Party Game : If you ’ve ever played a card battle plot and wished your creativity mattered more than your statistics , then Story War is for you . This board game lets you take control of a emcee of fancy creature , but you have to narrate the activity of the battle . If you may come up with specially creative or humorous way to defeat your antagonist , you acquire the round . For a $ 25 pledge , you ’ll receive a physical copy of the biz .
Pang , The Wandering Shaolin Monk Vol . 2 : Ben Costa ’s long - running webcomic , Shi Long Pang , The Wandering Shaolin Monkexplores a fabled version of 17th - century China . Pang is a Thelonious Sphere Monk from a destroy Shaolin temple , rove through China in hunt of his brothers . Costa search the political upheaval of the era with clarity , humor , and mountain of kung fu . For a $ 25 assurance , you ’ll meet a hardcover copy of Volume Two . For a $ 45 pledge , you ’ll receive hardback of both Volume One and Two .
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