We cuddled together in the chair after bath, read Frog and Toad, sang songs. He soon became deeply immersed in pouring water out of a plastic measuring cup on repeat. “I wish my name were Sophie* and that I could wear dresses and do ballet and be a girl turtle.”**īefore I could respond, his attention had shifted. He disrupts gender norms with equal abandon.Īs when, sitting naked on the toilet before bath-time, he blurted out the following desire in one breathless rush: Me, imagining his answer will be something like ‘green beans’ or ‘soccer class’: “Like what?”ĭeath is not the only conversational curveball in our household these days. Him: “I think I don’t really like to try new things.” On the way to daycare drop-off: “Is it light when we die? Or dark?” In the grocery store: “How do you die gently?” Lately, my three-year-old drops the topic of Mortality into conversation as casually as if he were asking about the weather. Delany, The Motion of Light in Water (1988) It seemed, in the park at dawn, a kind of revelation – a kind of center, formed of a play of ambiguities, from which I might move in any direction.
There was something at once very satisfying and very sad, placing myself at this pivotal suspension. So, I thought, you are neither black nor white.Īnd you are that most ambiguous of citizens, the writer. Darko Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979) Which means that it is-potentially-the space of a potent estrangement… In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.Basically, (science fiction) is a developed oxymoron, a realistic irreality, with humanized nonhumans, this-worldly Other Worlds, and so forth. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer.
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