Sciency, girl-positive steampunk kids' adventure novel on Kickstarter

Kyle sez, "My friend Jordan Stratford has launched his first Kickstarter (currently funded, yay!) but the idea is simply too lovely not to share. From Kickstarter:"

This is a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems. This is the made up story about two very real people -- Ada, the world's first computer programmer, and Mary, the world's first science fiction author. If Jane Austen wrote about zeppelins and brass goggles, this would be the book. Why "Wollstonecraft"? Mary names the detective agency after her mother, the famous feminist writer. If this is the kind of book you'd like to see, please support this project.

Wollstonecraft (Thanks, Kyle!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

“This is a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems”.

They should maybe also make it pro-broccoli, just to make even sexier sounding.
- nachoproblem
  
  Suddenly I feel soooooo hot for broccoli.
- digi_owl
  
  I find it somewhat sad that it even has to advertise itself as pro any of those. What happened to that great nation?
  - TaymonBeal
    
    It never existed.
Kyt Dotson

I. MUST. HAVE!
turfgrrl

What a great project!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=805316 Simone Serenity

This is a book for kids of any gender, not just for girls. I’d love to have my sons read it.
http://twitter.com/worcraig Craig Tallentire

A novel does not need kickstarter…just write it.