The Seanchai Library will be presenting another round of stories and readings in Voice this coming week, where they continue three of their serialisations, together with a lot of other goodies.
As always, all times SLT, and unless otherwise stated, events will be held on the Seanchai Library’s home on Imagination Island.
Sunday December 2nd, 18:00: Peter Pan

Caledonia Skytower presents the final part of novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie’s most famous work.
While Peter Pan first appeared in another of Barrie’s works, The Little White Bird, written for adults in 1902, it was in the 1904 stage play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up in which he first came to widespread public attention. The play was later expanded upon by Barrie to form the 1911 novel, Peter and Wendy, which later became Peter Pan and Wendy and, eventually, simply Peter Pan.
Both the stage play and the novel tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook.
Caledonia will be reading this installment at Magiclands, commencing at 18:00 SLT.
Monday December 3rd, 19:00: All Seated on the Ground
Caledonia Skytower continues her reading of All Seated on the Ground, Connie Willis’ 2007 science-fiction novella and winner of the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
The story follows Meg, a newspaper columnist who has joined a commission studying aliens that have landed on the Denver University campus. The aliens glare at everyone, and allow themselves to be led to various locations, but the commission has no idea how to communicate with them. Following an incident at a local mall during the Christmas shopping season, Meg and a school choir director team up to try to decipher the aliens’ actions before they leave Earth.
Tuesday December 4th, 19:00: Christmas at The Vinyl Cafe
Dave owns the world’s smallest record store, where the motto is “We may not be big but we’re small.” Dave is frequently neurotic and prone to small accidents and mishaps – but he’s not the only one in his family, or his neighbourhood.
Bear Silvershade reads two stories penned by Stuart McLean for his CBC Radio show, The Vinyl Cafe. In The Great Gift Giving we find that all it takes is one pebble to start an avalanche. While in Morley’s Christmas Pageant, Dave’s wife, the long-suffering Morley, tries her hand at running a children’s Christmas concert.
Wednesday December 5th, 19:00: Miracle on 34th Street
Caledonia Skytower commences an adaptation of the George Seaton / Valentine Davies Christmas classic, which first appeared in 1947 starring Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn, and which has been subject to a number of remakes and updates, including the 1994 version starring Sir Richard Attenborough. A novella based on the film, also penned by Davies, was published simultaneously with the film’s release, and was itself turned into a stage play in about 2006 by Will Severin, Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder and John Vreeke.
Join Caledonia at Imagination Island as she retells the story of how Kris Kringle is hired by Macy’s to become their “Santa Claus” in what is regarded as a classic tale for Christmas.
Thursday December 6, 19:00 The Santa Clause
Shandon Loring one more hitches a ride on a sleigh drawn by a team of rangifer tarandus to Imagination Island to bring us the second part of The Santa Clause, a “novelisation” of the Leo Benvenuti / Steve Rudnick screenplay from the 1994 film starring Tim Allen.
Saturday December 8th, 18:00: Christmas Classics
Join Derry McMahon and Bear Silvershade at the Holiday Sim (please check the Seanchai Library SL blog for the LM, which will be available on the day) for a round of classic Christmas tales.
Saturday December 8th, 18:00: Christmas Classics
Join Derry McMahon and Bear Silvershade at Fruit Islands’ Winterland (please check the Seanchai Library SL blog for the LM, which will be available on the day) for a further round of classic Christmas tales.