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Fat Tuesday
Ian McDonald


Not only was Ian McDonald one of the first of a new generation of British SF
writers to break into print in the eighties, he did it in the USA. After
publishing several highly acclaimed short stories in Isaac AsimovТs Science
Fiction Magaнzine and being nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best
New Writer of 1985, he published his first novel, Desolation Road, and a
collection of short fictions, Empire Dreams, in 1988. Three more novels have
followed, the latest being Hearts, Hands and Voices. At present heТs working on
something called Necroville, but whether that has to do with the fact that he
lives in Belfast isnТt apparent. If anything, as with Van Morrison, Belfast
inspires McDonaldТs lyrical fictions, notable for their density of ideas and
exuberant characters and prose, which in СFat TuesdayТ find an ideal marriage of
form and content.

McDonald tells us:

IТd like to say it happened like this:

Six fifteen. Pressing buttons on the remote control.

Channel one: the child killers of Rio are abroad in the hills again.

Channel two: dance energy, some Harlem kid pulling incredнible rhythms out of a
plastic bucket.

Channel three: ladeezlgennelmenlboys Тn Тgirls: life in the Lycra Age!

Channel four: the great white guitar thrash fetish.

Remix is the dominant popular culture form of these last two decades of the
twentieth century.

Except - it didnТt. Quite.

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Black Sunday

S
ambada: musical composition in 2/4 rhythm characterised by massed drumнming,
remixed sampled material and extended electric guitar improvisation.

Also: sambada: a popular dance originating from the conurнbations of Alto
California province, to the above-mentioned musical composition, especially as
performed during the annual pre-Lenten carnival.

Also: sambada: a social gathering at which sambada is danced and performed.