Muse of Fire
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: 28Dec2008
Place of publication: Burton, MI USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781596061811
Copyright date: 2007
Description: In a remote future age when the human enterprise has all but ground to a halt. a wandering troupe of players is dedicated to presenting the works of Shakespeare to every accessible corner of the settled universe. When aliens take an interest, the players find themselves giving command performances of King Lear, Hamlet and the Scottish play for a series of increasingly important alien species, with evidence that the fate of all humanity may rest on the quality of their work.
Table of contents: title: In the far future, Earth is a mausoleum and the far-flung human race occupies the lowest level of a complex interstellar hierarchy.  In a far part of the universe, in a ship called the Muse--her/it-self a being that runs the vessel--a space-traveling group of actors wander worlds inhabited by human slaves, performing the works of Shakespeare; title: Cover illustration by John Picacio.; title: Story first appeared in the SF Anthology NEW SPACE OPERA edited by Gardner Dozois.