Last night's SF in SF
Oct. 21st, 2007 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
klwilliamsLast night the SF in SF readers were Kage Baker and Eliot Fintushel, and they were great.
Before the readings began, Eliot Fintushel played the theremin in the lobby. What that actually looks like is someone waving their hands in the air in front of a couple of antennae, which is pretty much just what they're doing. They're controlling the pitch and amplitude (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) of radio waves sent out by the antennae, and the music that comes out can sound fairly normal (and beautiful), or it can make the space age sound effects you hear in fifties music. Very cool.
Eliot then read a sweet and funny story about young Rabbi Schlomo. I'll find out the name and post more about it on the web site.
Kage Baker read the first Company story she's written since she finished the final Company novel, and it, too, was very sweet, about an Immortal whose operations to make him immortal made him autistic as well.
We all (me, Terry Bisson, Eliot, Kage, Jacob Weisman, and some friends of Kage's) went out to dinner beforehand, which gave me a chance to meet and talk to Eliot and Kage before the reading. Kage is and has been very involved in Dicken's Faire, as well as the Rennaisance Faires in both northern and southern California, and we knew a couple of people in common. I'm definitely going to go back to Dicken's Faire this year and say hi.
Before the readings began, Eliot Fintushel played the theremin in the lobby. What that actually looks like is someone waving their hands in the air in front of a couple of antennae, which is pretty much just what they're doing. They're controlling the pitch and amplitude (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) of radio waves sent out by the antennae, and the music that comes out can sound fairly normal (and beautiful), or it can make the space age sound effects you hear in fifties music. Very cool.
Eliot then read a sweet and funny story about young Rabbi Schlomo. I'll find out the name and post more about it on the web site.
Kage Baker read the first Company story she's written since she finished the final Company novel, and it, too, was very sweet, about an Immortal whose operations to make him immortal made him autistic as well.
We all (me, Terry Bisson, Eliot, Kage, Jacob Weisman, and some friends of Kage's) went out to dinner beforehand, which gave me a chance to meet and talk to Eliot and Kage before the reading. Kage is and has been very involved in Dicken's Faire, as well as the Rennaisance Faires in both northern and southern California, and we knew a couple of people in common. I'm definitely going to go back to Dicken's Faire this year and say hi.
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Date: 2007-10-26 09:15 pm (UTC)FYI, the story Eliot read was "How the Little Rabbi Grew", which appeared last month in Strange Horizons.