@misc{23288,
  keywords = {Male author, Northern Ireland author},
  author = {Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960)},
  editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)},
  title = {“Sigh No More”},
  abstract = {<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">The story takes places in London after a Carrington Event (a massive solar storm) </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">knocks out all electric power. Satellites falling from the sky at night are popular viewing. The main focus of the story is the struggle to mount a previously planned performance of <i>Much Ado about Nothing</i>. The point is made that &ldquo;If the pandemic pushed people apart and tech together, the Event blew tech apart and brought people tech together in mutual aid and community&rdquo; (48). For an analysis of this response to disaster, see </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">Rhiannon Firth, <i>Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action</i>. London: Pluto Press, 2022. </span></span></span></p>},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection},
  pages = {41-58},
  month = {01/2023},
  publisher = {The MIT Press},
  address = {Cambridge, MA},
  isbn = {9780262546461},
  language = {eng},
}