December story reading

[magid]

This month's story reading featured a number of new pieces: chapter 6 in Majes' (sf) novel (still no repeating characters, but there are rumors about chapter 7...), a poem Queue wrote, and a Hannuka story Scholargipsy wrote yesterday (this still astonishes me), sad yet strong. It's so exciting to hear new pieces, written by friends. Perhaps someday I will have inspiration for something worth reading aloud.

There were also pieces of published works: Ruth read " How Erg the Self-inducting Slew a Paleface", from Stanislaw Lem's Mortal Engines, a robotic fairy tale. I read excerpts from Bill Bryson's Down Under (featuring descriptions of cricket and the desert, mostly), and the first night's story in the Animated Hannukah book, a very silly thing.

And many snacks were consumed.

Comments

[queue.livejournal.com]

I would categorize majes's story as fantasy, not sf.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I suppose I don't really distinguish between sf and fantasy. Or rather, there's a lot of speculative fiction, and some of it is fantasy, some science fiction, and some is probably in other categories as well.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't make it; I just wasn't feeling up to going out last night. And it looks like my hunch was right - I was sound asleep at 10:30! I'd have been snoring on your floor if I'd come.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Considering how many people were lying around under blankets, you would've fit right in :-).

I hope you're feeling better today.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I missed it. I had a story that is (sort of) appropriate to this time of year...and much higher quality than that Fluffy garbage I read last time.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Next month, maybe?
I don't know when yet, except not just before Arisia :-)