But when all of them are unavailable, the last act on the list is Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes, a washed up glam-rock trio. As their short-list for human acts that they’d want includes Courtney Love, Yoko Ono, and the Insane Clown Posse. Of course, the joke is, the space aliens in Space Opera kind of have terrible taste in music. Oh, and there’s also a rule that whenever a new species is discovered, they have to send an act themselves– and if said act places in last place? Well, obviously that species isn’t actually sentient, and is no doubt a threat to the galaxy, and should summarily be wiped out. Naturally, they decided on a music festival– every species sends their best musical acts, because what better way to prove you have a soul by bearing said soul on stage through song and dance? It’s explicitly Eurovision: IN SPAAAACE. As hundreds of years ago, after the conclusion of a horrible, genocidal galactic war, all the sentient species of the universe started a project to ensure such a thing would never happen again.
In any case, I’d heard a lot of good thing about Valente’s Space Opera, and here we are! I guess copyright can run out on titles, or I guess it’s just hard to trademark genre names, or whatever. Valente’s Space Opera from Jack Vance’s Space Opera. Hard Science Fiction.Book Review: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valenteįor the record, it’s important to distinguish Catherynne M. Read Harder: A Sci-Fi Novel with a Female Protagonist by a Female Author
Today could, in point of fact, fuck all the way off.” In the mood for more sci-fi?Ħ Books to Read If You Fell in Love With Janelle Monáe’s DIRTY COMPUTER “Decibel Jones sighed and shook his head. It looks like you’re trying to survive the night and not get slaughtered in the next 5 minutes like the miserably finite mortal organics you are. “Hey there, I’m Clippy, your computer assistant. “Hello there, cutie! My name is Altonaut Who Runs Faster Than Wisdom Along the Milk Road, fourteenth Lyric of the Aaba Verse, and I’ll be your galactic liaison this afternoon! Can I tell you about our specials? As our appetizer tonight, we’ve got a totally scrumptious annihilation of everything you ever thought was true served on a bed of mashed anthropocentrism!” Please pull the eel in the lavatory if we missed anything.” I know you’ll want to get started right away writing the bassline of the total salvation of your species, so we’ve stuffed it full of anything we thought you might need. “And HERETHERERIGHTTHISWAY is your recordingstateroomstudio for the remainderdurationremainderelevendays of the flight. “All our precontact simulations categorized you as a Down-to-Clown Unflappable Guy Who Can Handle This Sort of Thing No Problem with a high probability of Being Actually into It All the Way.”
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