Award-winning designers launch Kickstarter campaign to fund sci-fi plant fiction
Industry: Books
Wayward fights off killer plants on Kickstarter with Improbable Botany, a short story collection about botanical futures by leading science fiction authors.
London, UK (PRUnderground) July 5th, 2017
London-based landscape, art and architecture practice Wayward has launched a Kickstarter campaign to revive the sci-fi reading genre of alien plant life. To do this, they’ve brought together ten renowned science fiction authors to imagine plant invasions, fantastical ecosystems and strange flora in “Improbable Botany”.
The anthology features contributions by Tricia Sullivan (a current nominee for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Awards), Cherith Baldry, Eric Brown, Simon Morden, Adam Roberts, James Kennedy, Stephen Palmer, Justina Robson and Lisa Tuttle. Also contributing is author Ken MacLeod, with a spin-off story from his critically-acclaimed novel, ‘Intrusion’.
Illustrator Jonathan Burton, who has worked with Penguin Books, MONDO, BAFTA and The Times, lends beautiful cover and story artwork to this part survival handbook, part page-turner.
Known internationally for their pioneering meanwhile spaces, Wayward’s work includes the Urban Physic Garden, a radical re-envisioning of historic medicinal gardens whose success has led to the creation of a 501(c)(3), to an 80 metre allotment in-front of London’s Southbank Centre, Europe’s largest center for the Arts, built from reclaimed windows and visited by over 8 million people.
Improbable Botany is live on Kickstarter until 26 July.
To view the Kickstarter, follow this link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waywardplants/improbable-botany
About Wayward
Wayward is a London-based landscape, art and architecture practice based in London, UK – an award-winning collective of designers, artists and urban growers. Since 2006, Wayward has pioneered new methodologies in the creative use of underutilised land and meanwhile spaces, transforming derelict sites into large-scale, design-driven spaces that engage local communities and inspire international audiences. Our critically-acclaimed projects include the Union Street Urban Orchard, commissioned by the Architecture Foundation for the London Festival of Architecture, The Helsinki Plant Tram, created for the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 and shortlisted for the D&AD Yellow Pencil, and The Queen’s Walk Window Gardens, a micro-city of urban allotments for the Southbank Centre, visited by an estimated 8 million people.
