Seeing Ear Theatre: Propagation of Light in a Vacuum - Part 1 & Part 2 (James Patrick Kelly)

Propagation of Light in a Vacuum - Part 1
Propagation of Light in a Vacuum - Part 2

The lone survivor of an interstellar mission struggles with reality on the other side of the light barrier.

There's a definite subgenre of stories based on the idea that Weird Shit happens when you go faster than light: James Blish's "Common Time" is one example and Le Guin's "Dancing to Ganam" is another. Oh, wait: add Asimov's "Escape!" as well.

This would be the subset of that sub-genre that I call "powered by sheer nonsense and if the running commentary of the protagonist is any guide, a near complete lack of understanding of the physics involved," overlapping with "Wow, women issues much?" But at least it ran for 47 minutes.

Cast:
Paul Giamatti as The Spaceman
Alissa Hunnicutt as The Imaginary Wife
Christine Lavren as Varina & Computer Voice
George Zarr as Old Man
Jef Betz as Young Man

Seeing Ear Theatre: Meet The Neighbor (George Zarr)

Meet The Neighbor

A nearly dialogue-free account of first contact between human and alien.

Interesting creative choice.

From the SF Signal discussion of the Nebulas

Sure is a huge slant towards women and the non white male. If we don’t start counteracting all the relentless one sided articles soon. Then SF is going to look a lot like the Romance Genre. And the funny thing is there wasn’t even a fight.

And now for no reason at all, a Malvina Reynolds song:

And in Groucho news

During his exploration of the main floor he noticed a window he'd never seen before. It only took him about a minute to work out how to get up to it using a radiator as an intermediate step (the window is up high).

So up until now he has spend all of his life in this building upstairs or in my office and he's never looked out the office window, which also faces north. There are no north facing windows upstairs.

He was clearly flabbergasted to see a whole new vista. Bear in mind this is a cat so conservative in his habits he managed to miss the existence of 3/4s of the main floor until a short while ago. Novelty is not necessarily a good thing to him.

Anyway, cut to giant eyed cat staring out the window and occasionally giving me a "Did you know about this? look. Evnetually he had to scurry off back upstairs to the closet of solitude for a think.

Also, while he can get up to the window he has no idea how to get back down without my help.

I can see no way in which this could go horribly wrong

Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy.

Mike Resnick has a new magazine?

Arc manor has announced the March 2013 launch of a new online/downloadable magazine edited by Mike Resnick.

The table of contents is interesting: ( Read more... )

A stupid question

Why, when I run link:james-nicoll.livejournal.com through Google blog search, do I get so few hits now?