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00:53:21

StarShipSofa No 340 Ben H. Winters

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2014/06/04

Coming up… Cover Art by Jim Burns Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis 02:10 Introduction: “Dead Man’s Hand” anthology, edited by John Joseph Adams 20:00 Main Fiction: “The Old Slow Man and His Gold Gun From Space” by Ben H. Winters Whether Caleb and Crane came out to California separate and partnered up later on—or whether they knew each other from some eastern clime and made their way westward as a pair—well, who the devil can tell and what the devil does it matter? Suffice it to

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02:22:04

StarShipSofa No 339 Brandon Sanderson

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2014/05/28

Coming Up Main Fiction: Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson The woman thrashed and spasmed in the hospital bed. Her dark hair was matted to her head with sweat, and her uncontrolled motions seemed almost epileptic. Her eyes, however, did not have the wildness of the insane—instead they were focused. Determined. She was not mad; she just couldn’t control her muscles. She kept waving her hands in front of her with awkward movements, movements that seemed

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00:48:25

StarShipSofa No 338 Alan DeNiro

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2014/05/21

Coming up… Main Fiction: “The Philip Sydney Game” by Alan DeNiro This narration of “The Philip Sydney Game” was created by and appears courtesy of Audible. The complete Audible audiobook of “Tyrannia and Other Renditions” – in which this narration first appeared – may be downloaded from www.audible.com/StarShipSofa. Several years ago, I started writing a story about a man who was flying into Minneapolis-St. Paul and saw a car crash from above. The plane was about a thousand feet up and was

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00:51:08

StarShipSofa No 337 Brad Torgersen

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2014/05/14

Coming up… Main Fiction: “Ray of Light” by Brad Torgersen My crew boss Jake was waiting for me at the sealock door. I’d been eight hours outside, checking for microfractures in the metal hull. Tedious work, that. I’d turned my helmet communicator off so as not to be distracted. The look on Jake’s face spooked me. “What’s happened?” I asked him, seawater dripping from the hair of my beard. ”Jenna,” was all I got in reply. Which was enough. Brad R. Torgersen is a healthcare computer geek by

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00:59:22

StarShipSofa No 336 Ron Collins

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2014/05/07

Coming up… Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis 02:30 Main fiction: “Bugs” by Ron Collins 15:30 Dr. Caulder kept talking, but John could scarcely follow along. The government needed authorization. Would he sign a waiver? Of course, Jesus Christ, of course. His hospital gown disappeared. A nurse sprayed his chest with shaving creme. Carol’s beautiful face filled his view, tears streaming down lined cheeks. She said something long and drawn out, but all John heard was “I love

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01:14:19

StarShipSofa No 335 Suzanne J. Willis

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2014/04/30

Coming up… Main Fiction: “Number 73 Glad Avenue” by Suzanne J. Willis 02:00 “What time does the clock have, Charlie?” Mary looked left, dark, bobbed hair brushing her shoulders. She heard him mutter then carefully shut the doors, locking the timepieces away, before walking around to face her, his little tin feet clicking softly against the wooden floor. “12 May 1923. Six pm.” Suzanne J. Willis is a graduate of Clarion South 2009. Her work has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Schlock

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01:34:34

StarShipSofa No 334 James Patrick Kelly

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2014/04/23

Coming up… Far Fetched Fables is now LIVE! Subscribe: http://farfetchedfables.com/feed iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/far-fetched-fables/id861359355 Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “The Biggest” by James Patrick Kelly 33:30 “The Genesee Street fire,” said Big. “There were eighteen people trapped on the fifth floor.” “And you rescued... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out

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01:06:24

StarShipSofa No 333 Special Fantasy Edition Aliette...

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2014/04/16

Coming Up: “In the Age of Iron and Ashes” by Aliette de Bodard. They ran the girl down, in the grey light of dawn: a ring of copper-mailed horsemen, racing after her until her exhaustion finally felled her. Yudhyana sat on his horse, shivering in the cold morning air, and thought of home—of the narrow, spice-filled streets of Rasamuri, and of his daughters shrieking with delight as he raced them in the courtyard. Anything to prevent him from focusing on what was happening. Aliette de Bodard

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02:28:21

StarShipSofa No 332 Sofia Samatar and Nina Allan...

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2014/04/09

StarShipSofa is proud to present all four nominees in the “Best Short Fiction” category of the British Science Fiction Association! You can vote for the BSFA awards here by Monday, April 14. Main Fiction 3: “Selkie Stories are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar 02:00 I hate selkie stories. They’re always about how you went up to the attic to look for a book, and you found a disgusting old coat and brought it downstairs between finger and thumb and said “What’s this?”, and you never saw your mom

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StarShipSofa No 331 E.J. Swift and Tori Truslow (BSFA...

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2014/04/02

StarShipSofa is proud to present all four nominees in the “Best Short Fiction” category of the British Science Fiction Association! You can vote for the BSFA awards here by Monday, April 14. Part 2 coming next week! SeaDriftSoaps Main Fiction 1: “Saga’s Children” by E.J. Swift 2:30 You will have heard of our mother, the astronaut Saga Wärmedal. She is famous, and she is infamous. Her face, instantly recognizable, appears against lists of extraordinary feats, firsts and lasts and onlys. There are

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02:34:02

StarShipSofa No 330 Leah Cypess and Mary Soon Lee

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2014/03/25

Coming up… Mothering Sunday Special! (March 30 in the UK): Two stories of maternal angst. Main Fiction 1: “Pause Time” by Mary Soon Lee 03:40 Twenty minutes into the transatlantic flight, Connor started wailing. Pauline cradled him in her arms. Then she rocked him, she offered him her breast, she sang to him; Connor continued to cry. The man sitting on her right gave her a thin smile. “Did you forget the baby’s pauser code?” “No,” Pauline mumbled, wishing she could sink through the floor into the

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01:35:22

StarShipSofa No 329 Indrapramit Das and Charlie Jane...

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2014/03/19

Coming up… Spacetime Special! Short Fiction: “Karina Who Kissed Spacetime” by Indrapramit Das 01:53 I always remember snow speckling the orange cone of streetlight that held my first kiss. It wasn’t snowing that night. This was before time fractured, left me slipping through its cracks like a bead of water. Perhaps it had been snowing in some other timeline during that first kiss. But not that one. It had barely been a first kiss, even. But it had been cold — cold enough to turn gutter water to

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01:16:05

StarShipSofa No 328 Robin Wasserman

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2014/03/12

Coming up… Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis 03:00 Introduction to “The End is Nigh” – Vol. 1 of “The Apocalypse Triptych” Edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey 16:20 Main Fiction: “The Balm and the Wound” by Robin Wasserman 22:00 Robin Wasserman is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, the Cold Awakening Trilogy, Hacking Harvard, and the Seven Deadly Sins series, which was adapted into a popular

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01:19:54

StarShipSofa No 327 David D. Levine

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2014/03/05

Coming up… Cover Art: Aeon Lux Fact: Synthetic Voices by Jimmy Rodgers 06:00 Main Fiction: “Pupa” by David D. Levine 20:00 She had already molted seven times and knew this feeling well, but this next molt would be her last as a juvenile. After this molt, she would pupate for three months, her ugly juvenile body replaced by a gleaming adults’. She was thrilled. She was terrified. David D. Levine is the author of over fifty published science fiction and fantasy stories. His work has appeared in

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StarShipSofa No 326 D. Thomas Minton

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2014/02/26

Coming up… Fact Article: Science News by J J Campanella 01:40 Pick the name for the new fantasy podcast from StarShipSofa and the District of Wonders Network: http://poll.fm/4nusd Main Fiction: “The Schrödinger War” by D. Thomas Minton 37:00 You’d think after seven tries, I could get the living part right, or at least be a pro at dying, but both are still messy and painful. At least dying doesn’t scare me anymore. D. Thomas Minton recently traded a tropical Pacific Island for the Pacific Northwest

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00:45:34

StarShipSofa No 325 Carlie St. George

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2014/02/19

Coming up… Main Fiction: “This Villain You Must Create” by Carlie St. George 06:00 Granite killed Mr. Malevolence on a Tuesday. In his defense, Mr. Malevolence had been trying to destroy the entire world at the time. Carlie is a writer, a pop culture geek, a math class survivor, and a silly hat enthusiast. She’s a 2012 graduate of Clarion West Writer’s Workshop. She also writes rather lengthy film critiques on My Geek Blasphemy, each dosed with a healthy pinch of snark and (hopefully) a dash of

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01:05:54

StarShipSofa No 324 Karl Bunker

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2014/02/12

Coming up… Fiction 1: “Overtaken” by Karl Bunker 04:15 “I found you.” The ship that said this had a mass of a few grams. It was composed of a central nodule less than a centimeter across, surrounded by kilometers-wide web constructed of sparsely distributed mononuclear wires. In the past, Karl Bunker has been a software developer, jeweler, musical instrument maker, sculptor, mechanical technician, and a few other even-less-interesting things. He lives in a suburb of Boston, Mass., with his wife, a

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00:33:27

StarShipSofa Episode 323 Robert T Jeschonek

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2014/02/05

Coming up… Fiction: “The Spinach Can’s Son” by Robert T. Jeschonek “I am the can of spinach in a sailor man’s hand. He squeezes, expecting me to burst open and launch a blob of green power into his gaping maw. “But I do not burst. He gets no mouthful of spinach, no surge of energy pumping up his arms to three times their size. That’s not how it works on this side of the tracks, my friend. “You’re not in the funny pages anymore.” Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics,

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01:09:57

StarShipSofa No 322 Robert Scherrer

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2014/01/29

Coming up… Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis 02:10 “Descartes’ Stepchildren” by Robert Scherrer 16:20 Robert Scherrer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University. His research area is cosmology, encompassing work on dark energy, dark matter, big bang nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale structure of the universe. He is also the author of a quantum mechanics textbook and has published several popular science articles and science

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01:55:00

StarShipSofa No 321 C.C. Finlay and Ken Liu

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2014/01/21

Coming up… Short Fiction 1: “Effect and Cause” by Ken Liu 01:15 Interview: Dr. Linda Spilker – Cassini Project Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 09:20 Ken’s fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, among other places. He has won a Nebula, two Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus Awards. He lives near Boston with his family. Ken’s debut

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