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

[james_davis_nicoll]

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

Comments

[scentofviolets.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense; it's like that old engraving where the lady leaning out of the upper story of her house is lighting a gentleman's pipe on a faraway hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire_on_False_Perspective). The hard part is recovering the fibers after the jump ;-)