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[skygiants]

Like an astute and alert professional, I totally missed the actual release of my one published story of 2017!

So, uh, anyway, it turns out my short story Romeo, Revisited came out last week in Volume 3 of Aliterate. It features a lot of productions of Romeo and Juliet, and also some aliens, although generally only the ones appearing in productions of Romeo and Juliet.

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[radiantfracture]

Congratulations!

I love this sort of playful form. The voice is perfect (that brusque, definitive, highly informed reviewer-speak). And I was moved by the Jovian production...

I don't know if you were winking at this, but there's a Star Trek novel where non-humanoid aliens put on Romeo & Juliet, -- I can't remember the title just now.

{rf}

[skygiants]

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it. :D (The Jovian production is also my favorite production.)

-- and no, I don't think I've read that Star Trek novel (unless it's in How Much For Just The Planet? though I don't remember that one having a lot of Shakespeare in it) but now I really want to!

[pedanther]

It's definitely not How Much for Just the Planet?.

I'm trying to think if I know what it is, but the only thing that's coming to mind is Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang.

[okrablossom]

Loved this!!! Thank you so much for sharing.

[skygiants]

Thank you!! I'm very glad you liked it. :D

[luzula]

Oooh, that was really cool! You made such good use of the format--I love how much worldbuilding was in those reviews.

[skygiants]

Thank you!! My dark secret as a writer is ... I love weird format gimmicks. >.>

[sovay]

So, uh, anyway, it turns out my short story Romeo, Revisited came out last week in Volume 3 of Aliterate.

Congratulations!

[skygiants]

Thank you!

[rmc28]

I enjoyed this very much, I really liked the use of reviews-as-worldbuilding :-)

[skygiants]

Thank you!! I'm glad it worked for you. :D

[ashnistrike]

That was really cool--I love the format, and how, in addition to telling the story in the background, it's also about the way we really do use theater to reflect on current events.

[skygiants]

yesss I love nerding out about Art Reflecting Cultural Shifts, I'm really glad that comes through! Thank you!!

[troisroyaumes]

This was a fantastic and very funny read! Appreciated all the theater geekery coming through in the story.

[skygiants]

Thank you! I am always looking to find more sci-fi fiction about theater so occasionally I am driven to writing some. :D

[pseudo_tsuga]

Queen Mab speech falls flat when directed towards a blank-faced representative of a species that doesn’t dream, let alone sleep.

WHOA, that is so rude reviewer!

—clad in the skinniest of skinny jeans and bright blue fedoras—and the Capulets—sporting an array of vivid red three-piece suits—

I love how this slyly points out current costuming trends while also just being hilarious.

The tale of galactic conquest as told by theater reviews is hilarious. And as someone who spends a lot of time at work browsing non-fiction articles, I also loved how you captured the different tones of the publications :D

[skygiants]

REVIEWERS LOVE BEING RUDE, reviewing professionally is the rudest job you can have. I'm so glad you liked this and you thought the voices worked! :DD

[dhampyresa]

Congrats!

[skygiants]

Thank you!

[lacewood]

Congrats on the story!

Sci fi theatre geekery is a niche that clearly needs to happen. I'm especially fond of the Globe 21st century "historical reproduction", but the entire Jovian version is gold (COMPETITIVE JOVIAN KNITTING)

[skygiants]

Thank you! I don't think I ever specified how many arms Jovians have with which to knit but in my head it's A LOT.

[obopolsk]

Congratulations! I'm excited to read this -- bookmarking for a bit later this week.

[skygiants]

Thank you! :D

[cyphomandra]

I loved this!! Fantastic format, and the performances all sound all too plausible. I am relieved to see that “the show must go on” applies even to alien invasion...

[skygiants]

Thank you! :D Aliens are aliens but that doesn't mean we can't critique their performances as character actors ALSO.