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[lollardfish]

Ok sci-fi fans, what are your favorite science-fiction utopias? I'm thinking about teaching a class on utopias next year, and want to use some reasonably contemporary fiction (as well as Plato, More, Bellamy, Lost Horizon, SimCity, and other stuff).

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Riffing on a related topic: my partner's daughter had to audition for entry to Houston's arts magnet school. As she was applying to the musical-theater program, her audition requirement was to perform a piece "from any published musical." Her choice? The opening number from the musical episode of BTVS, which had aired the previous season.

The judges loved it! One of them (himself a Buffy fan, as it turned out) nearly fell off his chair laughing when she announced what she'd be singing. And it most certainly was NOT something they'd already heard 6 or 8 times that day. We are convinced that her having the creativity to do that was part of the reason she got in.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Nice! This pleases me.