“Sigh No More”

Submitted by LT_Sargent on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 16:30
Title“Sigh No More”
Year for Search2023
AuthorsMcDonald, Ian [Neil](b. 1960)
Secondary AuthorsStrahan, Jonathan(b. 1964)
Secondary TitleCommunications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection
Pagination41-58
Date Published2023
PublisherThe MIT Press
Place PublishedCambridge, MA
ISBN Number9780262546461
KeywordsMale author, Northern Ireland 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.

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

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Author Note

Northern Ireland author (b. 1960)
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.