Good afternoon. This is your co-captain of the good ship Space Opera Libretti speaking. Thank you for choosing us as the anthology of choice on this voyage into the mystical and melodic, the hilarious and the harmonious. The stewards will be coming around shortly with the drink cart. Until then, I’m inviting one of our crew up to the cockpit to tell you about her story, available now in Space Opera Libretti! I'll be doing this every Monday until we reach our destination.
Spruce Wells’ story was an instant hit in the editing room, and we were surprised to hear that The Banda Plays On was her first ever submission. I think you’ll be seeing a lot of her work in the future!
In 10 words or less, how would you describe your story?
Riddling music! Buffet tables! An autistic heroine! The vast unknown!
What was the inspiration for this story? Be as brief or detailed as you want.
I wanted so desperately to read a science fiction story with an autistic heroine where her autism was her strength, not a weakness to overcome. When I heard the prompt open up for Space Opera Libretti, I knew that this was a great chance to see that come to life and I was so happy to find such a perfect fit for this weird, little story about the inter-communicative struggles of running an orchestra in space.
Do you have anything you want to promote? Other stories or books, your Etsy shop, a cool video you found online of dancing llamas that you think the world needs to see?
Shout out to AI Weirdness, run by Janelle Shane a www.aiweirdness.com! I’m a huge fan. Her neural network experiences always crack me up and are amazing case studies in how we work with machines to think and learn. Her experiments are a great way to highlight how strange it is that humans think the way we do.
Anything else you want to say?
I’m ecstatic to have worked with Jennifer Lee Rossman and Brian McNett on this anthology! They are true experts in pulling an anthology together and it’s been such a learning experience for me as a new writer. Any readers who dive into the worlds in this anthology are in for a treat.
Spruce Wells is an autistic writer and word researcher in Pennsylvania. When she is not at work researching workplace communication tactics and dialect differences, she spends her time writing about interplanetary miscommunication and alien sociolinguistics. You can follow Spruce on Twitter at @SpruceWells. This is her first publication
Each story in Space Opera Libretti is accompanied by a title page, which I made with free clipart and a design program. Here is Spruce’s.
Each story in Space Opera Libretti is accompanied by a title page, which I made with free clipart and a design program. Here is Spruce’s.
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