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 Click to enbiggen WhenSaturday, April 24, 2010 WhereNorth Hollywood Masonic Temple WhoProduced by Sacred Circles Productions, and benefiting the Midnight Mission‘s Family Housing Unit. HowThe usual way. Buy tickets now! BonusAfterparty at the Amsterdam Cafe in North Hollywood from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. A $5 donation is requested! Performers at the After Party include Kalima Satori, Jessica Martinez, Desert Lotus Tribal, Irina, & Chimay. I’ll be there. Will you? You know you want to. Looking for a great series of cocktail recipes? Look no further than professional drunkard writer Warren Ellis:
What could be simpler? For ease of reference, it’s also available as a t-shirt for the next week or so. Another audio story I really liked recently was “The Things” by Peter Watts, as heard on the Clarkesworld Magazine podcast. It’s the story of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), told from the perspective of the shape-shifting, infectious alien. I don’t want to say much more about it, but if you haven’t seen movie in a while, watch it, then follow it up1 with this story. Mr. Watts is a biologist by trade, and his writing is always grounded in hard science, complete with exhaustive bibliographies. His stories are also pretty damned dark, which I love. I first discovered him through his Rifters series, Starfish, Maelstrom, and Behemoth, all of which are available online, are really dark, and chock full of good sciencey stuff. His most recent novel, Blindsight, is also available online, and really baked my noodle2. It’s an absolutely fascinating exploration on the nature of intelligence and self-awareness, and how the two are, to a certain extent, mutually exclusive. If you’re interested in cognition at all, it’s well worth your time. Plus, it’s got a space vampire. Finally, Mr. Watts is also the fellow who produced the amazing dead-pan presentation “Vampire Domestication: Taming Yesterday’s Nightmares for a Better Tomorrow” which he first presented at a con in 2005. Again, if you’re interested in science, biology and/or vampires, well worth your time. More audio fiction reviews to come, methinks.
This story first appeared in All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, and it’s a real treat. I love stories that have alternate history, airships, swashed buckles, world-as-myth, and a wicked sense of humor. This story has all of that, plus well-informed philosophical musings on the nature of writing, imagination, causality, and our perceptions thereof. Go listen to it on PodCastle, or you can read it for free online.
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Via Richard.
From the band that brought us that wacky and wonderful treadmill music video for “Here It Goes Again.” Keep up the good work fellas! |
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