The Guardian has a review of Solaris’s Book of New Science Fiction which opens with this line. Early in 2007 the science-fiction imprint Solaris marked its launch with The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. A year later, editor George Mann returns with a follow-up, this time featuring strong stories from Kay Kenyon, Michael Moorcock, […]
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First you start by taking the table firmly in your hands and saying, “Stupid table, you’ve got no future and you’re poorly designed.” If it still looks chipper, discuss the economy until you can get the varnish to peel. It shouldn’t take long. In all seriousness, sometimes in theater we need a piece of furniture
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!!! I think that deserves more than a single exclamation point, don’t you? I got the email a little over a week ago and couldn’t even hint that I’d been told. That’s probably where the fever came from, all the pent-up excitement. Today though, they announced the full nomination list for the Hugos. The Cambell
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It looks like the fever has finally broken. Whew. Let me ask you this, because Rob says it doesn’t happen to him and I’ve just always assumed it was a normal part of getting a fever. My skin gets really sensitive, like all the nerve endings have been chafed and are jangling. I can’t stand
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The Associated Press: Fred Rogers Tribute Includes Sweater Day PITTSBURGH (AP) — A tribute to children’s public television pioneer Fred Rogers will include an effort to get people everywhere to wear a sweater on what would have been his 80th birthday. March 20th is being promoted as “Sweater Day” to honor Rogers, who died of
This isn’t entirely unexpected, since I’ve been pushing really hard over the past weeks, but I’m definitely ill. Lucky thing I had a couple of days off so I could hunker down and sleep.
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In the production of Rainbow Kiss, a Battenberg Cake figures prominently however it’s never eaten. Now, the battenberg is very specific in look, with a checkerboard of pink and white visible in every slice. While it’s very common in the UK, it’s something of a specialty item here, so I asked the director if it
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All I will say is that the frogs at the beginning of this are not the coolest part of this Chinese production of Swan Lake, which pairs ballet and acrobats.
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Hannah and the Hollow Challah is supposed to open tomorrow, but there’s this slight question of where. Apparently work on the theater means that the building will be closed tomorrow. We just found out yesterday that it might happen and today found out that it will happen. Thank heavens I built a touring set, eh?
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It’s 2:40 am and I’ve just gotten home from the theater. For the first time in a week and a half, it’s not because of a crisis, but because we went out for drinks afterwards. I’m almost out of the woods. I think I’ll even begin to dive into the email piled up in my
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While I appreciate your desire to share, it is not necessary to have your television actually in the airshaft. Having said that, I will admit that it is interesting to hear the TARDIS materialize outside my window at 2 a.m. Some time travel would be useful this week. Sleep, however, would be more useful and
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But you’ll have to wait until I’m finished with tech to see pictures of it. At least be happy I remembered to take photos. It’s a Battenberg cake, as specified in the script.
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At rehearsal the other day, someone said that the way you feel after an all-nighter is the way you will feel all the time twenty years from now. I feel eighty.
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Tech week is proceeding apace. Nearly out of the woods. Speaking of woods, here’s more canned content. One of the interesting things about moving is that one finds all sorts of things, like, say, a short story from 1978. I was nine years old. Here is an excerpt with the original spelling and punctuation. It’s