{"id":197,"date":"2015-10-30T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microcosmpublishing.dev\/blog\/2015\/10\/now-kickstarting-feminist-steampunk-bike-racing-action\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:29:31","slug":"now-kickstarting-feminist-steampunk-bike-racing-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/now-kickstarting-feminist-steampunk-bike-racing-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Kickstarting: Feminist steampunk bike racing action!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I joined Microcosm at the beginning of this year, I brought along a lot of contracts for books that nobody quite knew what to make of. Several of them have come out since, including the feminist bicycle science fiction volume Pedal Zombies<\/a>, which was met with quite a bit of skepticism\u2014Microcosm has never published a straight up work of fiction before, much less science fiction. Would we be able to pull it off? Well, one successful Kickstarter campaign and a steady stream of kick-ass<\/a> reviews<\/a> later, it looks like it’s working for us. <\/p>\n

And not a moment too soon. <\/span>Today we launched a Kickstarter project for our second science fiction book<\/a>: <\/span>The Velocipede Races<\/em> is Emily June Street’s steampunky YA tale of a young woman’s liberation, a comedy of manners combined with edge-of-your seat racing scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s an exciting, page-turning read. <\/span>Cherie Priest, New York Times Bestselling author of <\/span>Boneshaker<\/em>, says that it’s “Tense, thoughtful, and truly thrilling; <\/span>The Velocipede Races<\/em> is a marvelous fantasy of manners and machinery.” We hope you like it as much as we do: To learn more, check out the video below, and please consider backing the project<\/a> before it ends on November 28th.<\/span><\/p>\n

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