Lisa Shapter
Autor von A Day in Deep Freeze
Werke von Lisa Shapter
Life on Earth [short story] 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Shapter, Lisa
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Shapter, Lisa Ann
- Geburtstag
- 1972-05-18
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Tryon, North Carolina, USA
- Ausbildung
- Earlham College
- Berufe
- Writer, Library functionary
- Kurzbiographie
- Lisa Shapter was born on May 18, 1972. She is a member of Codex Writers' Group and an alumna of the Breadloaf Young Writers Conference and attended same school as Sarah Orne Jewett. She has worked as an editor’s assistant for a major press, at several libraries, and has completed her apprenticeship to an antiquarian book dealer. She lives in New England and is completing a series of novels set in an alternate history New England and another series about the colonization of the Milky Way galaxy.
She is a member of the National Writers Association and the New England Science Fiction Association.
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A Day in Deep Freeze von Lisa Shapter
As the title states, the story covers a single day in the life of the narrator. During WWII, he was employed in a secret underground factory which manufactured a truth drug, but the drug affected all those working in the factory – which was sealed and its workforce were not allowed to leave. But some – including the narrator – later escaped, but now many years afterwards the factory has closed down, its workforce let go, and they’re now integrated into the local town’s population. But the drug changed them. It made them form near-telepathic relationships with each, a “bond” between two men, which, of course, they have to hide as it’s considered “inversion”. Shapter has written that she writes sf in which she uses male characters to tell women’s stories, and if A Day in Deep Freeze is any indication it’s an effective technique. The novella makes no concessions to the reader – it’s a puzzle to figure out what is happening just as much as it is to figure out why – but the end result is a strong piece of writing that takes a interesting premise in an unexpected direction. I think I’ll be nominating this for the BSFA. Incidentally, Shapter is currently writing a series of military sf stories with all-male casts based on a similar philosophy (see here for a list), and it seems an exercise worth investigating. (Although I would like to see more about the world of A Day in Deep Freeze).… (mehr)
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