I think the short-form dramatic pieces are probably all worth checking out -- I'm planning on ingesting them all before the meeting. Here are some Amazon Instant Video links for the short-form dramatic category:
- “The Doctor’s Wife” (*Doctor Who*)<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0050XFXT0>, written by Neil Gaiman; directed by Richard Clark (BBC Wales) - “The Girl Who Waited” (*Doctor Who*)<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MF1O5S>, written by Tom MacRae; directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales) - “A Good Man Goes to War” (*Doctor Who*)<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055JP7EU>, written by Steven Moffat; directed by Peter Hoar (BBC Wales) - “Remedial Chaos Theory” (*Community*)<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005VMUNS6>, written by Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna; directed by Jeff Melman (NBC) These are $1.99/ea for Prime members, maybe more if you don't have Prime. I haven't watched these three *Dr. Whos* yet, but the *Community* episode is pretty darn funny -- the show overall is not at all SF'nal, but it often strays into decidedly slipstreamy territory, and this is one of those cases. And IMHO Dr. Who's been pretty good since the reboot, and mostly getting better. It's funny to me that Dr. Who is now producing some darn good TV-SF, since it used to be mostly just cheesy fun. "Blink" (the original "Weeping Angels" story) was really inventive in its storytelling and had a genuinely terrifying villain. Of the two from Series 6 that I've watched, I thought one ("The Day of the Moon") was quite good. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 1:54 PM, delancey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Here are some useful links for the short story nominees: > > For “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu > (Clarkesworld) > http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yu_04_11/ > http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_11/ > > For “The Homecoming”, Mike Resnick (Asimov’s) > > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CEsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asimovs.com%2Fpdfs%2FStories%2FTheHomecoming_MikeResnick.pdf&ei=39UvUIScJ5SI6AGRn4HoDA&usg=AFQjCNH4sIhN14EhhLEwTx6wsOu6GVFQfw&sig2=ac17rkdsgNEuOvK9781LSQ > > For # “Movement”, Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s) > > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CEoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asimovs.com%2Fpdfs%2FStories%2FMovement_Fulda.pdf&ei=LNYvUJLIDejR6gHN-IDADA&usg=AFQjCNGriWEqq5EWCwOx2UqGrdm1gNzoRQ&sig2=R7lVfQulRvMxjP38Qglgbg > > For “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and > Science Fiction) > > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CEkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fescapepod.org%2F2012%2F05%2F17%2Fep345-the-paper-menagerie%2F&ei=XNYvUI6eEcT_6QGcyICQCg&usg=AFQjCNFnUAs12UsEdtS2wNwuddQUekx5ow&sig2=Jv1QhVKG0BFo4Mg_XztuNw > > For “Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: > Prologue”, John Scalzi (Tor.com) > > http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/04/the-shadow-war-of-the-night-dragons-book-one-the-dead-city-excerpt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
