Kelley Eskridge clarifies a point about "Dangerous Space"

Ref: My earlier post on the story.

I'd read it as a "gay" love story. While one of the characters in the relation ship is clearly male, Kelley clarifies the second is of carefully unspecified gender - with gender assignment left to reader. Looks like some readers assign male, while others assign female.

Sorry Kelley.

Kelley Eskridge's "Dangerous Space" (novella, free): A gay love story,

in the backdrop of a small music band's rise to fame.

There is a very tiny speculative element: a device that lets a member of the audience experience the emotions of any member of a live music band.

Story obviously addresses a limited audience - not only because of gay issue, but because the "bands" aren't the dominant means of music production everywhere.

Notes.

1. While there are many stories that network brains, the one that has stayed with me is Arthur Clarke's "Patent Pending". But the device is central in Clarke's story, & only peripheral here.

Fact sheet.

First published: Dangerous Space (collection of author?), 2007.
Rating: B.
Download full text from author's site.
Nominated for Nebula Award 2008 in novella category.