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Contact With Shadow
Stephen Black
2009-2013
This campaign succeeded on Oct 21, 2026.
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“It’s a double pleasure to read this… First, there’s the joy of gleaning nuggets of knowledge about Singapore and the printed word hitherto unknown; and second, there’s the childlike wonder of never knowing what Stephen Black has in store for us on the next page.”
~ Ng Yi-Sheng
Playwright, recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize
Full of grief, Singaporean history, printing press lore and sweet memories of love, to read Contact With Shadow is to experience loss– and redemption.
The story: a Cambridge research student comes to Singapore to learn about the island’s pre-Linotype printing history. His wife, an amateur chef, is killed by lightning. Overwhelmed with a sense of loss, he struggles to write his thesis. More often than not, his words are about the woman he loved. A bureaucratic “assistant” enters the picture, as does a Hollywood producer…
Contact With Shadow is an experience, not just a reading experience.
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The rights holder, Stephen Black , has agreed to release Contact With Shadow to the world as a Creative Commons licensed ebook (CC BY-NC-ND) thanks to the efforts of ungluers like you.
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There is also a version of CWS that features original photographs and illustrations. Would be great to connect this illustrated versiomn with those people who could get it printed and distributed.
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