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Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Girl on the Ceiling

21 Saturday Jan 2012

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Bedtime Stories, beginnings, NYC Palimpsest Project

The anonymous author of the NYC Palimpsest Project revealed her first bedtime stories in a series of ephemeral chalk graffiti. I spent days tracking down these scrawled messages to assemble the stories they describe.

The artist’s first tales at bedtime were all about a girl whose name matched her own—only backwards. This backwards girl lived on the ceiling. She ate pork chops for breakfast and cereal for supper. Her reversals led to all sorts of hijinks and escapades.

She might tell us more, but we’ll have to wait for the sidewalks to clear.

Bradley Beaulieu Solves Mysteries

19 Thursday Jan 2012

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Bedtime Stories, beginnings, Bradley Beaulieu, Choice, Hardy Boys, Mysteries, Nancy Drew, Stephen Gaskell

Bradley Beaulieu, author of The Winds of Khalakovo and co-author of Strata (with Stephen Gaskell), tells us this:

Unfortunately, I came from one of those households that didn’t read books much. I don’t recall any being read to me when I was very young. The first ones that I do recall—and I read them myself—were the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries. I can’t remember what particular books I read first. The Tower Treasure? Perhaps. The Secret of the Old Clock? Could be. Since this is a bit of revisionist history, I’ll choose The Sinister Signpost as my first book, if only for the silly yet somehow cool cover.

This brings up an important question: If you could choose your first and most formative bedtime story, which one would you pick?

Stephen Gaskell rides with Captain Pugwash

15 Sunday Jan 2012

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Bradley Beaulieu, Captain Pugwash, Clarion, science, science fiction, Stephen Gaskell

Stephen Gaskell struggles to remember the following:

I can barely remember bits of my novel’s plot a week later, so this is unreliable as hell, but I seem to remember having Pugwash read to me as nipper. Captain Pugwash was the bumbling, honourable leader of a ship of pirates, and always got into funny japes with his crewmates and enemies as they sailed around dangerous seas in The Black Pig. The artwork was beautiful, with colourful, rotund pirates making exaggerated expressions, and I think it gave me a lifelong love of that breed of old-fashioned adventuring that informs a lot of my fiction today. Great memories!

Stephen is one of the good people who strives to put science in his science fiction, and he recently released an e-book co-authored by Bradley Beaulieu. “It features giant solar mining platforms, skimmer racing through tunnels of fire, and a dangers rebellion.” For more information, and for old-fashioned adventuring on the surface of the sun, go browse in this direction.

Sarah Prineas and the Galloping Soundtrack

06 Friday Jan 2012

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Bedtime Stories, beginnings, Jenn Reese, Sarah Prineas

Sarah Prineas remembers this:

When I was a kid my dad worked very long hours, but now and then he was home when I went to bed, he would tell me this same story.  I haven’t thought of it in years, but he probably told it to me hundreds of times.  Next time I see him, I’ll ask him to tell it again.  It was an adventure that culminated with me being captured by a witch and imprisoned in a dark cellar.  I called out in this tiny voice, “I want my daddy!  I want my daddy!”  And then my best friend at the time, Johnny Schomp, rode up on his horse (accompanied by riding music) and rescued me, and took me to my dad.  The end! 

Sarah’s newest novel Winterling just arrived at a bookstore near you. Here’s Jenn Reese on why you should all read it.

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