pop-culture-mall-fashion-fiction-what’s up navigatrix) for telling me about
this.
Stars is an anthology of original
science fiction stories based on the songs of Janis Ian. Janis is best known in
the Philippines amongst people of a certain age for “At Seventeen.” As both
science fiction whore and Janis Ian fan, I am the perfect target. To find the
hardcover in Powerbooks this afternoon was a wonderful, wonderful thing. It’s
the perfect title, too.
There are writers here I haven’t read
in years. Spider Robinson, Jane Yolen (whose story, Ride Me Like a Wave, was
inspired by one of my favorite songs on the Breaking Silence album, which also
happens to be one of Stereophile magazine’s best-produced albums of all time,
and I can’t seem to find it now, which would normally throw me into a Monk-ish
frenzy, except the dawn was gentle and gray and I am willing myself into
calmness), Diane Duane… I am saving this book for an empty day, because I know
I will not want to talk to anyone, and will probably not even eat.