Sunday - December 21, 2003
Stars.
Thanks to Roach (my
pop-culture-mall-fashion-fiction-what's up navigatrix) for telling me about
this.
Stars is an anthology of original science fiction stories based on the songs of Janis Ian. Janis is best known in the Philippines amongst people of a certain age for "At Seventeen." As both science fiction whore and Janis Ian fan, I am the perfect target. To find the hardcover in Powerbooks this afternoon was a wonderful, wonderful thing. It's the perfect title, too.
There are writers here I haven't read in years. Spider Robinson, Jane Yolen (whose story, Ride Me Like a Wave, was inspired by one of my favorite songs on the Breaking Silence album, which also happens to be one of Stereophile magazine's best-produced albums of all time, and I can't seem to find it now, which would normally throw me into a Monk-ish frenzy, except the dawn was gentle and gray and I am willing myself into calmness), Diane Duane... I am saving this book for an empty day, because I know I will not want to talk to anyone, and will probably not even eat.
Stars is an anthology of original science fiction stories based on the songs of Janis Ian. Janis is best known in the Philippines amongst people of a certain age for "At Seventeen." As both science fiction whore and Janis Ian fan, I am the perfect target. To find the hardcover in Powerbooks this afternoon was a wonderful, wonderful thing. It's the perfect title, too.
There are writers here I haven't read in years. Spider Robinson, Jane Yolen (whose story, Ride Me Like a Wave, was inspired by one of my favorite songs on the Breaking Silence album, which also happens to be one of Stereophile magazine's best-produced albums of all time, and I can't seem to find it now, which would normally throw me into a Monk-ish frenzy, except the dawn was gentle and gray and I am willing myself into calmness), Diane Duane... I am saving this book for an empty day, because I know I will not want to talk to anyone, and will probably not even eat.