The Fredösphere

I found out about Futurity, a musical by The Lisps, via a review at tor.com.  (Tor.com is a corporate sibling, but not exactly the online presence for, Tor Books, the SF publisher.)  The Lisps are some kind of indy rock group and Futurity is an SF musical about an aspiring SF writer whose day job is fighting for the Union side in the American Civil War.  Yes, your guess that the steampunk aesthetic is strong in this one would be resoundingly correct, and you can bet your bottom difference engine that Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer, is a major character.

The show has a limited run so I won't have the problem of being even tempted to beg the wifeösphere and offspringöspheres to see a showing when we do Manhattan next month.  But you natives still have time to catch it this Friday or Sunday.

Labels: sci-fi, Steampunk, Thespianism