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Several nominees for best drama at the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AACAs) weighed in on time constraints, co-pro potential and premium storytelling at a panel at the National Winners Conference in Singapore last week. Moving from daily dramas to premium storytelling, budget constraints and the importance of having ample development time dominated the conversation at . ....
(Scribe US 978-1-950354-42-9, $16.00, 240pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, April 6, 2021) Post-apocalyptic SF novel of survivors in the only two city-states left, literally fed only by the suffering they see in graphic footage of perpetual war. [ Black Mirror… Rise & Shine does not shy away from the complex moral terrain of political agency. Carefully, subtly, Allington lets the tension between multiple propositions build: that law and order form a part of collective survival; that service of the people can easily slip into control of the people; that people want a leader; that effective leadership requires multiple perspectives; that people can change; that some people don’t. Allington sustains the tension until the final pages, where he offers a thought-provoking ending worthy of his imaginative take on dystopia. ....