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Coming Up… Interview: Zak Wilson  Find out what it’s like to live on Mars for 8 months! Fact: Science News with J J Campanella Main Fiction: “First and Third” by Vaughan Stanger Originally appeared in Postscripts 26/27 Formerly an astronomer and more recently a research project manager in an aerospace company,  Vaughan Stanger now writes SF and fantasy fiction for a living. His stories have appear...

Coming Up… Fact: Looking Back at Genre History  by Amy H. Sturgis Poetry Planet 16 by Diane Severson Main Fiction: “Flight of the Kikayon” by Kary English Originally appeared in  Grantville Gazette Kary English is a Writers of the Future winner and Hugo nominee whose work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Grantville Gazette’s Universe Annex, Writers of the Future, Vol. 31 and Galaxy’s Edge. ...

Coming Up… Fiction Crawler 16 by  Matthew Sanborn Smith Interview: Professor Christopher Riley talks about Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell Interview:  Salvatore Cerchio   talks about  Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar Main Fiction: “Rights and Wrongs” by Brian K. Lowe Originally published in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Magic Medicine Show Brian K. Lowe is a 21st century SF author who...

Coming Up.. Interview:  Jason Koebler . Also check out Jason’s amazing podcast “ Radio Motherboard “ Main Fiction: “The Metaphor” by Fiona Moore Originally published in Interzone. Fiona Moore is an anthropologist at the University of London by day and an SF writer by night. Her previous credits include fiction and poetry in, among others, Interzone , Asimov, Dark Horizons and Unlikely Story, three...

Coming Up… Interview: David Brin and The Best Year in Space Ever! Fact: Science News by J J Campanella  Main Fiction: “Catastrophic Failure” by David Steffen Fiction originally appeared in Perihelion Science Fiction . David is a software engineer and writer living in Minnesota. He is the editor of Diabolical Plots, a speculative fiction zine of fiction and nonfiction. In 2015 Diabolical Plots bega...

Coming Up…. Louis Rosenberg – founder of Unanimous Ai Click Here to get all you need to know and more about Human Swarming Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis Main Fiction: “Bitter Remedy” by Krystal Claxton Originally published in Plasma Frequency Magazine Tragically born with a miscalibrated sense of humor, Krystal Claxton lived in nine US states before the age of thirteen. The...

Coming Up… Bruce Drinkwater blueprint plans for ultrasonic tractor beam! Main Fiction: “Sensory Overload” by Julie Frost Originally published in Plasma Frequency Magazine. Julie Frost writes every shade of speculative fiction and lives in Utah with her family (wherein the pets outnumber the people) and a collection of anteaters and Oaxacan carvings, some of which intersect. Her fiction has appeare...

Coming Up… Interview: Nathaniel Calhoun Main Fiction: “The Damaged” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Originally published in Interzone. Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s fiction has appeared in magazines such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She lives in Texas with her partner and two literarily-named cats: Gimli and Don Quixote. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of S...

Coming Up… Fact: Science News b y J J Campanella Interview with editor of Escape Artists’ MotherShip Zeta , Karen Bovenmyer with Jeremy Szal Main Fiction: “ Julian of Earth” by Colin P. Davies Originally published in Asimov’s. Colin P. Davies lives near Liverpool, England and has been contributing to the science fiction and fantasy magazines for twenty-five years. His stories have appeared in Asim...

Coming Up… The First To The Singularity Click and Try It OUT! FREE Interview:  Zoltan Istvan – The First To The Singularity   Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H Sturgis Main Fiction: “Chasing Satellites” by Anthony Cardno Originally appeared in the anthology Beyond the Sun, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt. Anthony R. Cardno’s first published work was a “hero history” of Marvel Comics’ The...

Coming Up… Interview: Seth Shostak Click here for FREE alien-megastructure plans Main Fiction: A Lonesome Speck of Home by Beth Cato . Beth Cato is the author of THE CLOCKWORK DAGGER steampunk fantasy series from Harper Voyager. Her short fiction is in InterGalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Daily Science Fiction. She’s a Hanford, California native transplanted to the Arizona des...

Post Apocalyptic Week Special! Coming Up… Freebie – Get Vinay Gupta Hexayurt and make sure you survive! Interview: Vinay Gupta Main Fiction: “U for Umbrella” by Damien Angelica Walters Originally published in A is for Apocalypse. Damien Angelica Walters’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in various anthologies and magazines, including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015 , Year’s Best Weir...

Coming Up… YES! Get me on the Submission Desk Interview: Dan Vergano – NASA the Politics of Mars Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “Karma Among the Cloud Kings” by Brian Trent. Originally published in Analog magazine. Brian Trent is a 2013 winner in the Writers of the Future contest for his story “War Hero”  and his work has appeared in ANALOG, Daily Science Fiction, Apex (winning...

Coming Up… S upport District of Wonders on Patreon   StarShipSofa: Call for Assistant and Slush Reader Main Fiction: “Beneath the Willow Branches, Beyond the Reach of Time”, by Caroline M. Yoachim Originally appeared in Interzone Caroline M. Yoachim lives in Seattle and loves cold cloudy weather.  She is the author of dozens of short stories, appearing in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, A...

Coming Up… Support Tales To Terrify on Patreon StarShipSofa: Call for Assistant and Slush Reader   Main Fiction: “The Chronology Protection Case” by Paul Levinson Originally published in Analog, reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF. Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digita...

Coming Up… Interview: Prof Christopher Riley and Our Message for Voyager  – Facebook Page Main Fiction: “The Merger” by Sunil Patel Originally appeared in The Book Smugglers   Sunil Patel is a Bay Area fiction writer and playwright who has written about everything from ghostly cows to talking beer. His plays have been performed at San Francisco Theater Pub and San Francisco Olympians Festival, and...

Coming Up… Ana Matronic – Robot Universe Short Fiction: “Summer Home” by Sue Burke Originally appeared in Asimov’s . Sue Burke was born Wisconsin and lived briefly in Texas before moving to Madrid, Spain, in 1999. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, and she’s worked for decades as a journalist and editor. She’s also a certified Spanish-to-English translat...

Coming Up: Interview: Ben Stein Main Fiction: “The End of the War” by Django Wexler Originally published in Asimov’s. Django Wexler is the author of the epic fantasy series The Shadow Campaigns from Ace and Roc books . He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. ...

Coming Up… Interview: Serah Eley Main Fiction: “Between Screens” by Zach Chapman Originally published in Writers of the Future Vol. 31 Zach Chapman grew up on a ranch just north of San Antonio, Texas where he could see the cows grazing in the pasture from his bedroom window. In 2011 he graduated from the University of the Incarnate Word with a degree in English, where he won the College of Humanit...

Coming Up… Flash Fiction: The Binary String by Peter Taylor Interview: Becky Chambers author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet   Flash Fiction: “Ravages of Time” by Alex Shvartsman Originally published in Nature magazine. Narrator: Mark Nelson After getting a BA in Radio & Television, I spent the next 28 years in Human Resources – the graveyard of useless degrees. After being laid-off by my...

Coming Up… Fact: Science News by Jim Campanella Interview with author and editor Alex Shvartsman , with Jeremy Szal Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. Over 80 of his short stories have appeared in Nature, InterGalactic Medicine Show, Galaxy’s Edge, Daily SF , and other venues. He’s the winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for short fiction. His collect...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Redemption Awaits” by Mike Brooks Originally published in Grimdark Magazine Issue #4 Mike Brooks was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and moved to Nottingham when he was 18 to go to university. He’s stayed there ever since, and now lives with his wife, two cats, two snakes and a collection of tropical fish. He is the author of the Keiko novels, sci-fi adventures that follow the e...

Coming Up… Tiki Shark Art Hawaii Inc. Main Fiction: “Behind the First Years” by Stewart C. Baker Originally published in Cosmos magazine Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian, haikuist, and speculative fiction writer. His fiction and poetry has appeared in Daily Science Fiction , Nature , and Flash Fiction Online , among other magazines. Stewart was born in England, has spent time in South Caro...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Don Quixote‏” by Carrie Vaughn Originally published in Armored , edited by John Joseph Adams Carrie Vaughn is the author of the New York Times bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty, the most recent installment of which Kitty Saves the World .  She’s written several other contemporary fantasy and young adult novels, as well as upwards of 70 short storie...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City” by William Gibson Originally published in New Worlds William Gibson is the author of nine novels, most recently The Peripheral , and, with Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine . He was born in South Carolina. He lives in Canada. Narrated by: Nicholas Camm Nick is an actor, audio-book narrator and voice-overer. He recently did a few sce...