MONDAY May 1st at 7pm: ARCHITECTS OF HYPERSPACE

ARCHITECTS OF HYPERSPACE

- by Thomas R. McDonough -

A naive lady researcher follows her father's footsteps to a mysterious object in space where as his last transmission says, is "the answer to the question you always asked as a little girl."

Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS

at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!

_____________________________________

All times Pacific Time 

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We had a great time at Fantasy Faire LitFest this last week, with many memorable sessions including the two featured on Tolkien Day.  Good job everyone, and thank you for your enthusiasm and support of this terrific and powerful Second Life Fundraising event, benefiting Relay for Life:
We Are The Cure!

There's still lots going on at Fantasy Faire and lots of ways you can participate. Check out the schedule of Faire Happenings online!

Back to our Bradley University home this week ...

*Monday, May 1st, at 7 pm: Thomas R. McDonough's ARCHITECTS OF HYPERSPACE with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, May 2nd, at 7 pm: More from WILD AT HEART with Aoife Lorefield

*Wednesday, May 3rd, at 7 pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Continues with Corwyn Allen (also presented in Kitely  hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/108/609/1528)

*Thursday, May 4th, at 7pm CORMAC MAC ART - Night of the Wolf with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitely hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/108/609/1528)

One last reminder about Fantasy Faire if you hadn't seen this Drax Files episode before.  As a bit of trivia, once Shandon and Cale saw this, they contacted Zander Greene with an interest in getting the Library involved in doing live story sessions at the Faire.  Other people had the same notion, and the next year, Fantasy Faire Litfest made its Faire Lands debut.  Funny old virtual world, ain't it?

All sessions held at the Seanchai Library in Second Life unless otherwise indicated. Stories in voice. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

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All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our featured charity for March -April, which we are extending a few weeks into May because of the 10 days we spent with Fantasy Faire: Project Children, building peace in Ireland one child at a time.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY April 27th at 7pm: Monsters and Myth: THE CHIMAERA part two

"...a boy’s aspirations, a king’s cruelty, a poet’s dreams..."

Monsters & Myth: THE CHIMAERA

part 2

The Chimaera – a fire-breathing winged monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. Plaguing the lands of the Middle Sea, this fantastic creature comes into confrontation with the young hero, Bellerophon. The youth proves to be a worthy match, having already succeeded in his conquest of the tyrant king, Melicertes. Bellerophon’s adventures, which reach a climax in his battle with the Chimaera, provide a rich and powerful story of young ambition, evil intention, and poetic desire. The tale of the Chimaera is one of conflicting emotions, and the endless struggle against the demands of fate. It is about a boy’s aspirations, a king’s cruelty, a poet’s dreams, and the capricious nature of the gods – all magnified and illuminated within the turbulent world of myth.

Book: The Chimaera Author: Bernard Evslin

Join us in Second Life & Kitely

Fantasy Faire in Second Life
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kakushi%20Pasu/136/63/42
&

http://www.kitely.com/search?q=seanchai

or
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/108/609/1528

WEDNESDAY, April 26th - A Celebration of "Special Magnificence"!

It's Tolkien Day at Fantasy Faire Litfest!

We'll be over at the Party Field on THE HILL sharing tales of rings, and things ...

@1PM - TOLKIEN GOES PARTYING - Dubhna Rhiadra & Caledonia Skytower
We all think of J.R.R. Tolkien as a scholarly gentleman with a penchant for language and myth.  Come to realize, there’s some pretty great parties to be found in his published works.  Caledonia Skytower and Dubhna Rhiadra present “An Unexpected Party” (from The Hobbit) and “A Long-Expected Party” (from The Fellowship of the Ring) To be followed by dancing and fireworks in the party field.

@7PM - A WALK THROUGH MIDDLE EARTH
Seanchai Library takes you on a walk through Middle Earth, with selections from different episodes in the works of Tolkien involving The One Ring.. Corwyn Allen, Aoife Lorefield, Kayden Oconnell, .

All stories live in voice.
Fantasy Faire Litfest Benefits Relay for Life.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Hill/128/192/44

TUESDAY, April 25th at 7pm: THE MEAD OF POETS

"Do you wonder where poetry comes from? . . . It is a long story, and it does no credit to to anyone: there is murder in it, and trickery, lies, and foolishness, seduction and pursuit.  Listen."

Caledonia shares THE MEAD OF POETS, a story selected from Neil Gaiman's recently released "Norse Mythology", live in voice at Fantasy Faire LitFest 2017.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kakushi%20Pasu/136/63/42

MONDAY, April 24th at 7pm: A MIRACLE OF SMALL FISHES

We begin the week at Fantasy Faire LitFest 2017, with Gyro and "A Miracle of Small Fishes" by Alan Dean Foster.

Grandfather Flores was old but not too old to keep fishing.  If only there were still fish.  The sardines were all caught before they got as far south as San Quentin.  All Grandfather wanted was just one more good catch.  It would take a miracle.

Presented Live in voice.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kakushi%20Pasu/136/63/42

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Lbrary

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!

_____________________________________

All times Pacific Time 
This week we are at Fantasy Faire in SL - benefiting Relay for Life -  except where marked specifically below.  Wednesday and Thursday Sessions will be presented in both Second Life & Kitely.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kakushi%20Pasu/137/63/42

*Sunday, April 23rd, at 6 pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME: The Wind in the Willows begins with Caledonia. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bracket/180/56/31

*Monday, April 24th, at 7 pm: Alan Dean Foster's A MIRACLE OF SMALL FISHES with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, April 25th, at 7 pm: Selections from Neil Gaiman's NORSE MYTHOLOGY with Caledonia Skytower.

*Wednesday, April 26th, at 7 pm: TOLKIEN TALES - Selections from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy with Corwyn Allen, Aoife Lorefield, Kayden Oconnell. (also presented in Kitely)

*Thursday, April 27th:
      
~ at 7pm Monster & Myth: THE CHIMERA Concludes with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitely)

      ~ at 9pm SEANCHAI LIATE NIGHT: contemporary Sci-Fi with Finn  Zeddmore (back at Seanchai on Bradley U iSL)

Stories in voice. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _____________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our featured charity for March -April: Project Children, building peace in Ireland one child at a time.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

FRIDAY April 21st at 6pm: REQUIEM - by Robert Heinlein

REQUIEM

by Robert Heinlein

Harriman, a tycoon and latter-day robber baron, had always dreamed of going to the Moon, and had spent much of his career and resources making space flight a practical commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, his business partners prevented him from taking the early flights because they could not risk the public face of their company. Now an old man, Harriman has still not been to the Moon, a fact that frustrates him, since he lives in a world where space travel is so commonplace that carnivals have their own barnstorming spacecraft. Although no longer bound by his contractual obligations, he is now too old to pass the medical examination needed for space travel.

Join us in Second Life and Kitely

International Space Flight Museum in Second Life
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/128/128/22
and

http://www.kitely.com/search?q=seanchai

THURSDAY April 20th at 7pm: Monsters and Myth: THE CHIMAERA part one

"...a boy’s aspirations, a king’s cruelty, a poet’s dreams..."

Monsters and Myth: THE CHIMAERA

part 1

The Chimaera – a fire-breathing winged monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. Plaguing the lands of the Middle Sea, this fantastic creature comes into confrontation with the young hero, Bellerophon. The youth proves to be a worthy match, having already succeeded in his conquest of the tyrant king, Melicertes. Bellerophon’s adventures, which reach a climax in his battle with the Chimaera, provide a rich and powerful story of young ambition, evil intention, and poetic desire. The tale of the Chimaera is one of conflicting emotions, and the endless struggle against the demands of fate. It is about a boy’s aspirations, a king’s cruelty, a poet’s dreams, and the capricious nature of the gods – all magnified and illuminated within the turbulent world of myth.

Book: The Chimaera Author: Bernard Evslin

Join us in Second Life and Kitely

Fantasy Faire in Second Life
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kakushi%20Pasu/137/63/42

and in Kitely

http://www.kitely.com/search?q=seanchai
or
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/108/609/1528

AND DON'T FORGET!  @9PM - SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore!

WEDNESDAY, April 19th at 7pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Continues

"Lovecraft's Cthulhu meets Len Deighton's spies in Stross's latest, as the Scottish author explains in his afterword to this offbeat book offering two related long novellas, "The Atrocity Archive" and "The Concrete Jungle" (the latter previously unpublished). With often hilarious results, the author mixes the occult and the mundane, the truly weird and the petty..."
~ Agent, Caitlin Blasdell at Liza Dawson Associates for Publisher's Weekly

Join Corwyn Allen as he continues The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross.  Live in voice.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28
and in Kitely
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/60/52/23

TUESDAY, April 18th at 7PM: More from OF MICE AND MAGIC

Faerie Maven-Pralou continues David Farland's fantastic adventure, live in voice.

Ben and Amber are pitted in an epic battle against a magical enemy who is as crazed as he is evil, and the fate of the world will rest on them learning to work together.

Learn more about the Ravenspell Series, and his other works at the Author's Website.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

MONDAY April 17th at 7pm: MISS PRINKS

MISS PRINKS

- by Gordon R. Dickson -

Miss Prinks was somebody's aunt; a sort of singleton aunt, living a quiet life...
...until the clock struck 13

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS

at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

SUNDAY, April 16th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME ~ Easter Brunch with Caledonia

There's a table just waiting for you: orange juice, sweet rolls, and maybe even a brightly colored egg or two. No doubt there will be something chocolate! Grab a seat, and welcome Spring as Cale shares selections from Kenneth Grahame's delightful Dream Days stories, live in voice.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!

_____________________________________

All times Pacific Time 

*Sunday, April 16th, at 1:30 pm: TEA TIME ~ Easter Bruch with Caledonia.   Come enjoy brunch among the tulips as Cale shares some of her favorite spring time adventures.

*Monday, April 17th, at 7 pm: Gordon R. Dickson's MISS PRINKS with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, April 18th, at 7 pm: David Farland's OF MICE AND MAGIC Continues with Faerie Maven-Pralou

*Wednesday, April 19th, at 7 pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE ~ Part 2 Continues with Corwyn Allen. (also presented in Kitely)

*Thursday, April 20th: 

      ~ at 7pm Monster & Myth: THE CHIMERA Part 1 with Shandon Loring (at Fantasy Faire in SL - check for landmark info closer to the day.  Will also be on the Kitely grid)

      ~ at 9pm SEANCHAI LIATE NIGHT: contemporary Sci-Fi with Finn  Zeddmore (back at Seanchai on Bradley U iSL)

WE WILL BE AT FANTASY FAIRE (except for Late Night) APRIL 20-27

Stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray at Bradley University  in Second Life, unless otherwise noted in the listing. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _____________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our featured charity for March -April: Project Children, building peace in Ireland one child at a time.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY April 13th at 7pm: THE TWILIGHT ZONE

"There's A Signpost Up Ahead, Next Stop The..."

TWILIGHT ZONE

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone. 


Tonight:
Nightmare at 20,000 feet
Brothers Beyond The Void

Join us in Second Life & Kitely

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

http://www.kitely.com/search?q=seanchai

WEDNESDAY, April 12th at 7PM: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Continues

"Stross has gene-spliced H. P. Lovecraft and Len Deighton to produce a SF thriller that is both witty and unsettling."

Join Corwyn Allen as he continues The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross.  Live in voice.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28
and in Kitely
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/60/52/23

TUESDAY, April 11th at 7PM: OF MICE AND MAGIC Continues

More than anything, Benjamin Ravenspell wants a pet. But when he buys a mouse named Amber, he gets more than he bargained for. No sooner does Ben take her home, than Amber turns him into a mouse too. 

You see, Amber has magical abilities, and it so happens that Ben is a familiar—a creature that stores magical energy. Together they each form half of a powerful wizard. Alone, they're just vermin. 

Soon Ben and Amber find themselves pitted in an epic battle against a magical enemy who is as crazed as he is evil—and the fate of the world will rest on them learning to work together.

Learn more about the Ravenspell Series, and his other works at the Author's Website.

Faerie Maven-Pralou continues David Farland's fantastic adventure, live in voice.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

MONDAY, April 10th at 7PM: The Conclusion of ENEMY MINE

Gyro Muggins shares the exciting conclusion of Barry B. Longyear's 1980 Hugo Award-winning novella.

Willis Davidge travels to the Drac homeworld to find Jeriba Shigan's child, and fulfill his promise to his long-passed friend, ensuring the future of the child among his people.

Presented live in voice.
 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!

_____________________________________

All times Pacific Time 

*Saturday, April 8th, at 1 pm: FANTASTIC TALES at Filling the Cauldron with Dubhna Rhiadra, Kayden Oconnell, Aoife Lorefield, and Caledonia Skytower - with tales of dragons and other tales fantastic.  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/144/131/28

*Sunday, April 9th, at 3 pm: Kenneth Grahame's THE RELUCTANT DRAGON at the Kultivate Magazine Spring Art Show with Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower.  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/179/138/22

*Monday, April 10th, at 7 pm: ENEMY MINE Concludes with Gyro Muggins

*Tuesday, April 11th, at 7 pm: David Farland's OF MICE AND MAGIC Concludes with Faerie Maven-Pralou

*Wednesday, April 12th, at 7 pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE ~ Part 2 Continues with Corwyn Allen. (also presented in Kitely)

*Thursday, April 13th: TWILIGHT ZONE - The Original Stories with Shandon Loring  (also presented in Kitely)

THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Continues with Corwyn Allen in both Second Life and Kitely
With the aid of "simlink" shared chat and special Screen HUD which offer glimpses between grids,
connecting two audiences in a single shared event.

Stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray at Bradley University  in Second Life, unless otherwise noted in the listing. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _____________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our featured charity for March -April: Project Children, building peace in Ireland one child at a time.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY April 6th at 7pm: X-FILES: Trust No One

"The truth is still out there"

X-FILES: Trust No One

We all want to believe. The truth is still out there. The X-Files have been reopened. Join us tonight for all-new case files from the X-Files. Scully and Mulder continue their journey into darkness as they face aliens, monsters, shadow governments, and twisted conspiracies. TONIGHT:
presented in duet by Caledonia & Shandon1995 Little Hill, Missouri. Mulder decides to stop over after an assignment to the town of Little Hill the sight of an alleged UFO crash back in 1969. Two farmers have tourist trap exhibits of captured aliens that look very fake. A feud between the two farmers results in one of the exhibits actually coming to life and terrorizing the town.

Book: X-Files: Trust No One

ISBN-13: 978-1631402784

Join us in Second Life & Kitely

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

http://www.kitely.com/search?q=seanchai

AND DON'T FORGET!  @9PM - SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore!

WEDNESDAY, April 5th at 7pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Returns

Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for The Laundry, a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn’t risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob’s world is dull but safe, and that’s the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.

Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control-alt-delete to sort this mess out…

Join Corwyn Allen as he resumes The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross.  Live in voice.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28
and in Kitely
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/60/52/23

TUESDAY, APRIL 4th at 7PM: OF MICE & MAGIC Continues

The first book in a three volume series, author David Farland takes a humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach to fantasy and adventure: taking familiar relationships and shuffling them into something that seems like maybe you know it, but you really don'e.

Learn more about the Ravenspell Series, and his other works at the Author's Website.

Faerie Maven-Pralou continues David Farland's fantastic adventure, live in voice.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

MONDAY April 3rd at 7pm: ENEMY MINE

ENEMY MINE

- by Barry B. Longyear -

Willis Davidge, a human fighter pilot, is stranded along with Jeriba Shigan, a Drac, on a hostile planet.
Two soldiers, deadly enemies, crash on a rugged but habitable world.
They can survive, if they are willing to work together.
CONCLUSION

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS

at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28