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Patreon support now standing at 417 – last week 416  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Language of Flowers" by Ian Creasey This story originally appeared in Analog (May 2016) Ian Creasey lives in Yorkshire, England. He has published seventy-odd short stories in magazines and anthologies."The Language of Flowers" originally appeared in Analog (May 2016).&...

Patreon support now standing at 416 – last week 410  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters.   Main Fiction: "The Singing Tree" by Christian Riley This story is original to StarShipSofa . Chris Riley  lives near Sacramento, California, vowing one day to move back to the Pacific Northwest. In the meantime, he teaches special education, writes cool stories, and hides from the blas...

Patreon support now standing at 410 – last week 411 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Queenpin of the Wastes" by Zach Chapman Originally appeared in Futuristica Vol. 2. Zach Chapman is a movie critic, podcaster, and author. His short fiction appears in Nature , Tales to Terrify , and Writers of the Future . He also edited the anthology Time Travel Tales , which includes st...

Support this show and it's archives - join Patreon Join me this week as I play a great interview never before played in public of a talk I did with three legends of science fiction: Jerry Pournelle, Greg Benford and Larry Niven way back on the 21st April 2013. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Patreon support now standing at 411 – last week 408 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters.   Main Fiction: "The Art of Failure" by Robert Dawson Originally appeared in Compelling SF , March 2016 . Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at a Nova Scotian university. He has been writing science fiction for about eight years, and is an alumnus of the Sage Hill and Viable Paradise writing workshops. W...

Patreon support now standing at 408 – last week 410 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters.     Main Fiction: "Cram Time" by Konstantine Paradias This story original to StarShipSofa Konstantine Paradias is a writer by choice and a member of the SFWA by compulsion. At the moment, he's published more than 100 stories in a bunch of languages and has written, edited, and posed for videog...

Main Fiction: "Pop Tarts" by Lauren Beukes Originally appeared in Laugh it Off. Lauren Beukes is a South African author and scriptwriter. Her books include the black magic noir, Zoo City , which won the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Shining Girls , about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around, which won the University of Johannesburg Prize, and Survivor’s Club, a h...

Patreon support now standing at 410 – last week 416  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .   Main Fiction: "Two-Year Man" by Kelly Robson This story was originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction , August 2015 Kelly Robson Kelly Robson’s short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld , Tor.com, Asimov’s, and multiple anthologies including many year’s bests. In 2017, she was a finalis...

Support this show and keep the archives intact. This episode come from the archives of 28th August 2014 with a grand tale by Lisa Tuttle. This story was picked by a ex editor of the show and a good friend Adam Pracht. It was a running joke with Adam that I could never say his surname correctly. One of many that I have butchered over the years. “The Dream Detective” by Lisa Tuttle Lisa Tuttle is an...

Patreon support now standing at 416 – last week 411  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .   Main Fiction: "The Valkyrie" by Maurice Broaddus Originally published in War Stories A community organizer and teacher, his work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Weird Tales, Apex Magazine, Asimov’s, Cemetery Dance, Black Static, and many more. Some of his stories have been collected in The...

Patreon support now standing at 411 – last week 407  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .   Main Fiction: "When I Close My Eyes" by Chris Barnham Originally published in Interzone Chris Barnham spent a long time working for the British government, but now just makes stuff up for himself. ‘When I Close My Eyes’ first appeared in Interzone in July 2017. Chris’s forthcoming novel, Fifty-...

Patreon support now standing at 407 – last week 405  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters . Main Fiction: "Ormonde and Chase" by Ian Creasey This story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction (June 2014) Ian Creasey lives in Yorkshire, England. He has published seventy-odd short stories, several of which have previously been podcasted at StarShipSofa. His last appearance in Star...

Patreon support now standing at 405 – last week 404.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .   Main Fiction: "All The Colours You Thought Were Kings" by Arkady Martine Originally published in Shimmer. Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and an apprentice city planner. Under both names she writes about border p...

Support this podcast on Patreon   This week we catch Nick Camm narrating Philip Suggars short story “Automatic Diamante”. And as you can see this episode hit the Sofa airwaves Sept 25th 2013. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Patreon support now standing at 404 – last week 406.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA   Main Fiction: "Gossamer" by Ken Liu Originally published in Writers of the Future Ken Liu is an author of speculative fiction, as well as a translator, lawyer, and p...

Patreon support now standing at 406 – last week 405.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA   Main Fiction: "The Stone Age Gap" by Meredith Morgenstern This story is original to StarShipSofa Meredith Morgenstern is the space princess identity of Meredith Lope...

Patreon support now standing at 405 – last week 403.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "A Little Song, A Little Dance, a Little Apocalypse Down Your Pants" by Robert Jeschonek Originally published in Galaxy's Edge Robert Jeschonek is an awa...

Patreon support now standing at 403 – last week 401.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "The Motivation Cure" by R. K. Nickel R.K. Nickel works as screenwriter in Los Angeles. His first feature film, Bear with Us , is available on Amazon Prime, a...

Patreon support now standing at 401 – last week 398.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA   Main Fiction: "Etude for an Extraordinary Mind" by Julie Novakova Originally published in Futuristica Julie Novakova is a Czech author and translator of science fict...

Support us On Patreon This time it's back to episode No 123 and we look at Snatch Me Another by Mercurio Rivera which came out March 3, 2010. So long ago but such a great story. To catch the full show click here! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Patreon support now standing at 398 – last week 395.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA   Main Fiction: "A Strange Loop" by T. R. Napper Originally published in Interzone T. R. Napper's short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Interzone, Lontar: a Journal...

Patreon support standing at 395 – last week 388.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA   Main Fiction: "Home Sweet BiOme" by Pat MacEwen  Originally published by The Magazine of F&SF Pat MacEwen is an anthropologist. She does independent research on...

Patreon support standing at 388 - last week 377.  Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters .  Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "The Advanced Ward" by Michael Janairo Originally published in Veterans of the Future Wars . Michael Janairo is a writer living in upstate New York. His short fic...

Patreon support standing at 377. Help us get to 500 goal .  Main Fiction: "Scienceville" by Gary Gibson Originally published in Interzone Gary Gibson is the author of ten novels, including Stealing Light and Final Days . His most recent novels are Extinction Game and its sequel Survival Game , about the adventures of a group of people, all of whom are the last man or woman on different altern...

Support us on Patreon We are going back to StarShipSofa Originals this time. This show came out in July 2007. We are playing Stephen R. Donaldson's story Mythological Beasts; Read by Ciaran O’Carroll Story first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction‘s January 1979 issue. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...