The Silver Cord -- A Techno-Epic Graphic Novel

[sollune]

Since the beginning of time, the world of humans and the world of angels have run parallel but apart, connected only by a single tunnel of light.

Humans know the tunnel as the passageway that lifts their souls after death. Angels know it as the Birthing Ring: the tunnel that delivers souls into the tiny bodies of newborn babies.

But the recent discovery of quantum computing has disrupted this age-old balance. As scientists perfect this technology in tiny “Q-chips,” they are inadvertently opening a second passage between the world of humans and the world of angelic species. But unlike the first passageway, this new portal is forming deep in territory controlled by dark sinister angels.

Any day now, scientists will install this new quantum-powered chip into a robot so smart, so life-like, so close to human consciousness, that just like a human baby, it too will require a soul.

Unbeknownst to the scientists, the exact moment the quantum robot is switched on, the new portal will open and allow the darkest of all angels to rush down and become the robot’s missing soul. This ensouled robot will be the first of many. An unstable force of possessed robots, until…

A confused teenager discovers that she’s the only one who can stop dark souls from penetrating the human realm.

But who will believe her?

A labor of love from Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine, and a large team of collaborators including Phil Lorin and Kiel Murray, who wrote for the Pixar movie Cars, and Steve Masseroni, who worked on the Sims game and LucasFilms’ Star Tours. The Silver Cord is available to read free of charge on its website at http://silver-cord.net ... so go on and enjoy!

And if you do, please consider investing in your own print copy by going over to the Amazon Createspace page here: https://www.createspace.com/3682384, and/or help to fund the sequel by going over to the Kickstarter page right here : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-graphic-novel ... in order to see this project through, we need all the support we can get, so please pass this along to anyone you can!

[LeoFLJ]

This looks kind of great. I will definitely be checking this out.

[sollune]

Update from Kevin Kelly:

A free web version of the first book of The Silver Cord is pretty cool, but not everyone likes to read comics on the web. Shocking! But I can sympathize. The web is not really optimized for reading.

So readers have been asking for a PDF version. We now have one, compressed so that you can download its full 214 pages. This, too, is free to download. Please share this PDF link with your friends and followers.

There is also a specialized comic book format for reading e-comics and digital graphic novels, called a CBZ file. We are also giving away that file as well. Click here.

We are really stoked that we have raised $10,000 so far, but the truth is the trend line says we will not reach our needed goal of $40,000 at this rate.

We need more folks like you. If you are backing this project, encourage your friends and followers to also check out The Silver Cord in web form, or now in PDF or CBZ, and join in the campaign.

[sollune]

For easier online reading, The Silver Cord is now on Issuu here : http://issuu.com/futuresgraphics/doc...ercord-bk1sm/1

[sollune]

With two weeks to go to the end of the Kickstarter campaign, we have 36% of the required funds to produce Volume Two of The Silver Cord... we need your support! Click here to access the Kickstarter page and help us reach our goal.

[sollune]

The Silver Cord’s kickstarter campaign a record day yesterday, with almost 4000$ raised, but we are still short of our 40 000$ goal. We still need about 18K, in about 4 days. That will be a miracle of sorts to achieve, so we’ll need all the help we can get. Please consider doing a mass emailing to your contact lists, and asking any mover or shakers that you may know to share this project with their constituents.

» CLICK HERE « to go to The Silver Cord Kickstarter page

[sollune]

With just over 2 days left, we still need about 11 000$ ... it is not impossible!

» CLICK HERE « to go to The Silver Cord Kickstarter page

and share the link with anyone you can!

[sollune]

27 hours to go!

The Silver Cord’s kickstarter campaign is up to more than 36 000$, but we are still short of our 40 000$ goal. We still need a little over 3000, before tomorrow, so still need your help! Please pass this along to anyone you can!

» CLICK HERE « to go to The Silver Cord Kickstarter page

The Silver Cord is a massive, full-color graphic novel about robots in a religious war with angels and, at the center, a half-breed girl who must save them all. By Kevin Kelly, Steve Masseroni, Louis Sollune, and many more. Read it now at silver-cord.net - free!

[sollune]

We made it! with 18 hours left to go, we have reached our goal of 40 000$ to produce The Silver Cord Volume 2!!! Thanks to all who have supported us!