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A quest for comedic radio plays
Aug. 23rd, 2012 10:33 amSeen in email, a request for one or two 15 minute comedic radio play scripts suitable for public reading. Any suggestions?
Aug. 23rd, 2012
This is so rich in fodder for nitpickery
Aug. 23rd, 2012 11:13 amBut I will settle for just one, and a comment:
"A few days travelling at light speed" should, I think, read "A few days travelling at *near* light speed".
I don't think I've previously seen Marusek listed as one of the greats.
If you do manage to travel close to the speed of light, the time dilation effects should be huge, says Kakalios. To the point where a few days traveling at light speed should mean that hundreds of years for the rest of the universe.
"A few days travelling at light speed" should, I think, read "A few days travelling at *near* light speed".
the great Vernor Vinge, David Brin, and David Marusek
I don't think I've previously seen Marusek listed as one of the greats.
From this OSC essay urging Romney to eschew an unseemly cruelty to the innocent young:
The second article of faith is
How was this reconciled with the Curse of the Lamanites?
"It's a moral one, and it comes right from the core Mormon beliefs that you and I share. It's in the Second Article of Faith: We believe it's wrong to punish children for their parents' or ancestors' offenses. Period."
The second article of faith is
We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
How was this reconciled with the Curse of the Lamanites?
Curses! The plot is out!
Aug. 23rd, 2012 12:59 pm
(CNN) -- An elected county judge in Texas is warning that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and is calling for a trained, well-equipped force to battle the United Nations troops he says Obama would bring in.
It's funny but while I can easily think of a Second Civil War novel that used a thinly disguised Hillary Clinton, I have yet to be send one featuring Obama in an analogous role.
In this classic SF novel
The Texans are motivated mainly by being Texan; their political police come across nearly as warm and lovable as the Stasi.
(This was one of the books that made me notice how often American Vice Presidents are presented as a villains, even administrations otherwise presented sympathetically; the Texans kidnapped the President with the aid of the VP, who has an eye on the top post for himself)