“Sigh No More”
| Year for Search |
2023
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| Secondary Title |
Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection
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| Author | |
| Annotation |
The story takes places in London after a Carrington Event (a massive solar storm) 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 Much Ado about Nothing. The point is made that “If the pandemic pushed people apart and tech together, the Event blew tech apart and brought people tech together in mutual aid and community” (48). For an analysis of this response to disaster, see Rhiannon Firth, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action. London: Pluto Press, 2022. |
| Pagination |
41-58
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| Published Date |
2023 |
| Publisher |
The MIT Press
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| Place Published |
Cambridge, MA
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| Download citation | |
| ISBN Number |
9780262546461
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| Full Text |
2023 McDonald, Ian [Neil] (b. 1960). “Sigh No More.” Illus. Ashley Mackenzie. Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Cambridge. MA: The MIT Press, 2023), 41-58. PSt The story takes places in London after a Carrington Event (a massive solar storm) 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 Much Ado about Nothing. The point is made that “If the pandemic pushed people apart and tech together, the Event blew tech apart and brought people tech together in mutual aid and community” (48). For an analysis of this response to disaster, see Rhiannon Firth, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action. London: Pluto Press, 2022. Northern Ireland author. |
| Info Notes |
For an analysis of this response to disaster, see Rhiannon Firth, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action. London: Pluto Press, 2022. |
| Illustration |
Illus. Ashley Mackenzie. |
| Holding Institutions |
PSt |
| Author Note |
Northern Ireland author (b. 1960) |