Astro-Nuts: An Intergalactic Drama
elo 2015 · Hachette UK
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It’s the General Assembly of the Galactic Union, and the first delegation from SOL-3 is desperate to present its case before it. The crazily assorted contingent of the third planet of the star SOL - aka Earth - carries with it all its baggage of opposing opinions, narrow views, squabbles, secrets and conspiracies. Toilets, whales, racism, food, body size... everything is cause for shouting matches and name-calling as the representatives – 11 human and six non-human – each wait to hold forth.
To their shock and horror, they come to know that only one delegate will appear before the Assembly. Fuss and fireworks erupt among the elected leaders of the delegation, while five rebels plot a blow-up of a different kind. Uncertainty rules: Who is that one chosen speaker going to be and what is he, she or it going to say? Will SOL-3 be stuck with being ‘ecologically unfit for full membership to the Union’, or be seen as having ‘potential for change’? Is this interplanetary jamboree an insult, an opportunity, or a test?
Among telepathic cookies and high-tech waste disposal, Manjula Padmanabhan sets up a colourfully cast, witty and thought-provoking stage spectacle sure to leave its audience and readers amused, inspired and applauding.
To their shock and horror, they come to know that only one delegate will appear before the Assembly. Fuss and fireworks erupt among the elected leaders of the delegation, while five rebels plot a blow-up of a different kind. Uncertainty rules: Who is that one chosen speaker going to be and what is he, she or it going to say? Will SOL-3 be stuck with being ‘ecologically unfit for full membership to the Union’, or be seen as having ‘potential for change’? Is this interplanetary jamboree an insult, an opportunity, or a test?
Among telepathic cookies and high-tech waste disposal, Manjula Padmanabhan sets up a colourfully cast, witty and thought-provoking stage spectacle sure to leave its audience and readers amused, inspired and applauding.
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Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and playwright. She has illustrated 24 books for children, ten of them as author-illustrator. These include Mouse Attack (2003, Macmillan Childrens Books) and a series of picture puzzle books for Tulika, including We Are Different! (2013, Tulika) and The World Tour Mystery (2012, Tulika). In 1997, her play for adults, Harvest, won first prize in the Onassis Prize for Theatre, in Greece. Her books for grown-ups include Getting There (Picador, 1999) and Escape (2008, Picador India; 2015, Hachette India). Her next book for adults is a science-fiction novel entitled The Island of Lost Girls (Hachette India). Manjula lives on a small asteroid that orbits between New Delhi in India and Newport (RI) in the USA.
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