Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: science fiction

  • This Month at Prime Stage:Mystery Theatre & A Wrinkle in Time

    This Month at Prime Stage:
    Mystery Theatre & A Wrinkle in Time

    You are in a circular room with twelve locked doors. Each door is positioned like the hours of a clock and stenciled with an apparently random word or phrase. You have 12 keys, each labeled with a different code. Your task: decipher the codes, unlock the doors, and begin unraveling a mystery that must be…

  • Surviving World War C:
    Music to Span the Social Distance

    Last week’s post offered a list of “Podcasts for Shut-Ins,” which included what was then an unreleased installment of Inside The Hive. Although I had expected that podcast to feature an interview with screenwriter Scott Burns (Contagion), it instead offered a conversation with radio host Kai Ryssdal (Marketplace). Titled “Coronovirus against the World,” the interview…

  • Walking and Talking:
    Things to Come in 2020

    “If you’re going to talk the talk, you need to walk the walk.” You know the expression. It’s all about the importance of doing, as in Death of a Salesman, where all-talk Willy Loman is amazed to learn that all-walk Bernard is going to argue a case before the supreme court. “The Supreme Court!” Willy…

  • Nightmare Cinema Premieres at Fantasia

    An enthusiastic crowd gathered well in advance of Nightmare Cinema’s premiere. By 9:00 last night, the line already stretched around the block, assuring a full house for a project that producer-director Mick Garris began dreaming up over a decade ago. Shortly before 10:00, Festival Programmer Tony Timpone took the stage to introduce directors Mick Garris,…

  • It’s Official:
    Voices now in eBook from Fantasist Ent.

    I’m back home, settling in after KGB and SHU. I wrote my posts on those events more quickly than usual, but they seem to be lucid (to me at least). Both book-related appearances offered an opportunity to get the word out about Fantasist Enterprises’ new edition of Voices: Tales of Horror, and I’m pleased to…

  • Genre is a State of Mind:
    Books and Authors @ In Your Write Mind

    The genre stars came out on Saturday night for the latest installment of the In Your Write Mind book event – a massive gathering of science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery, romance, and YA writers that’s held each June at Seton Hill University. This was my first time back at IYWM in four years. June is…