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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast Director’s Cut – Sing

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8975 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

“A Musical on a Submarine” Norm and author Kristine Kathryn Rusch discuss her story from way back in 2008 for Drabblecast #53. This is the “Director’s Cut – Sing.” We also dive into a discussion about unsung women in Science Fiction, like Leigh Bracket and James Tipree Jr. Why use a pen name after all? […]

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I feel like, now about, I think in Singh, maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like since it was so long ago, 2008,

0:06.1

the character was kind of a female at first and we changed it to a male because I was the person reading it in first person.

0:11.6

Mm-hmm. Is that, so I hope you don't hate me for that. the person.

0:12.6

Is that so I hope you don't hate me for that.

0:16.5

No, I actually understand that.

0:18.3

No, what I understand is that forms are different.

0:20.5

It's like I get so angry at writers when they say, oh they didn't

0:24.2

make the movie the same way as the book and I'm like, okay, minimum if your

0:28.8

movie your book got made into a movie minimum 13,000 people worked on that movie over from the beginning to

0:37.0

the end.

0:38.0

There's no way it can stay the same.

0:39.5

It's a different form.

0:40.7

Or as my friend Kevin J Anderson always says, he says,

0:43.0

they can make my book into a musical on a submarine.

0:45.0

I don't care.

0:46.0

My book is still on the shelf.

0:49.0

Travel cast directors cut special, Sin. Dravel Cast Directors Cut Special Sin with Christine Catherine Rush

0:57.0

Dravel Cast directors cut specials are a regular monthly feature here in the

1:01.3

Dravel Cast where in part one we rerun a previous

1:04.4

treblecast story uncut, and in part two I sit down and interview the author in a

1:09.5

director's cut commentary setting where we re-listened to the story together and you get to know the story

1:14.9

and the writer on a whole new level.

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