Top Story
Published on 17. September 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
134 pages
978-1-63625-175-2 (ISBN)
Description
A meteor the size of LA is about to hit LA and in London a couple of friends spend their last seven days watching the news, reinventing chess and rewriting the rules of some of the other games in their universe: generally getting things into perspective, at once paralysed and inspired by the 'overallness of it all'. Getting ready, as best they can, to die together, the enormity of what's about to happen completely overwhelms them, but it also brings out in them a whole burst of creative energy, and so as the story to top all stories unfolds, they inadvertently become its co-authors, while in a dimension far beyond their imagination, their soul-mates-in-spirit are having something of an unexpected ball...
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
151 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63625-175-2 (9781636251752)
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Sebastian was born in Manchester, England, and grew up in Switzerland before moving to London at the age of 21, where he creates across platforms in theatre, film, print, and online, as a writer, director, and occasionally performer.
He is the author of several stage plays, ranging from contemporary relationship drama (The Power of Love) and the topical examination of religious fervour (Elder Latimer Is in Love), to the 'apocalyptic comedy' Top Story, and a celebration of Shakespeare's poetry in The Sonneteer.
His short films and debut feature The Hour of Living have been screened at festivals worldwide, and he is the author of the experimental online project EDEN by FREI - 'a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever', from which the EDEN miniatures series has been released in paperback and as ebooks, and from which his 'picture story book for grownups', The Snowflake Collector, has also been published in hardback and as ebook, illustrated by Diego Cassia.
Sebastian is a contributing author to A Quantum City (Eds. Hovestadt/Bühlmann, Birkhäuser, 2015) with Orlando in the Cities, a playful literary odyssey through 2500 years of civilisation, and co-author, with Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann, of A Genius Planet (Birkhäuser 2017).
Sebastian lives in London and works wherever his projects take him. He is also guest lecturer at the Department for Architecture Theory and the Philosophy of Technics at the University of Technology Vienna (TU Wien).