5/29/2023 0 Comments Valente space opera“You can’t play ‘Eurovision in space’ straight,” Valente says, and proves her point by turning Eurovision’s 50 nations and 100 million viewers into a competition that extends across the universe, attracting billions of viewers and outrageous alien performers-everything from sentient viruses and talented wormholes, to creatures that look like red pandas-but can travel through time-or like Microsoft’s much-maligned animated office assistant Clippy. Shunning science fiction’s typical seriousness, Space Opera strives to be as ridiculous-and funny-as possible. Valente on Twitter to create a science fictional Eurovision, resulting in the publication of Space Opera (Saga Press, 2018) two years later. The campy competition also led a fan to dare author Catherynne M. The Eurovision Song Contest has launched careers (think ABBA and Celine Dion), inspired outrageous costumes, and generated spinoffs.
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