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StarShipSofa No 667 C H Pearce Aug 18, 2021

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Main Fiction: "Worms, their Carer, and his Friend" by C. H. Pearce.

This story is original to StarShipSofa.

C. H. Pearce is an Australian writer of weird dystopian stories. She lives in Canberra with her partner and two small children, wrangles data at her day job, and also does art. Her short fiction has appeared in Aurealis, Award Winning Australian Writing 2016, and the CSFG Publishing anthology Unnatural Order. She's currently revising her first novel, an expanded version of the short story 'Worms, their Carer, and his Friend.' Find her online on chpearce.net, Instagram @c.h.pearce, or Twitter @CHPearceWrites.

Narrated by Will Stagl.

Will Stagl lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife Susan and daughter, Violet. His is a creative professional by day, the leader singer and guitarist for a post-punk band called the Liquid Centers by night, and is always up for a pint at the corner pub.

Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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StarShipSofa No 666 T Lucas Earle Aug 03, 2021

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Main Fiction: "Monkey Talk" by T. Lucas Earle.

This story was first published in Electric Spec in July 2011.

T. Lucas Earle is a writer, filmmaker, and musician. His fiction has appeared in Electric Spec, Colored Lens, Razor Literary Magazine, Baltimore Review, and New Myths. His dark comedy, Abduction, premiered in LA Shorts fest in 2013. His most recent film, in which he also plays the lead, is "Up Next." (You can view both films on his website and on YouTube.) T. Lucas lives in Los Angeles. Visit him at tlucasearle.com.

Narrated by TF Ahmad.

TF Ahmad is a writer and narrator from Chicago. His fiction has been published in Dark Futures and SOILED Magazine. His nonfiction has been published in the Chicago Monitor and Architizer.com. He's narrated stories on Tales to Terrify & he podcasts his own fiction on The Night Bulletin podcast, which you can find on your favorite podcast app. He can be hired for voiceover work at fiverr.com/tf_ahmad.

Fact: Hugo Reviews by Andy Tomaswick

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StarShipSofa No 665 Sophie York Jul 21, 2021

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Main Fiction: "Sleepers" by Sophie York.

"Sleepers" first appeared in Deep Magic in August, 2018.

Sophie York is a biomedical scientist and writer from Melbourne, Australia. When not working or translating the implications of research into fiction, she explores the world, documenting it with photographs and words. She was former editor-in-chief of SQ Mag, Australian speculative fiction ezine, where she won an Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Work. Her short fiction has been previously published in Deep Magic and several Antipodean anthologies.

Narrated by Tatiana Grey.

Tatiana is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth. She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn’t won a single damned thing. She went to NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can find her at tatianagrey.com.

Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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StarShipSofa No 664 Robert D. Beech Jul 07, 2021

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Main Fiction: "In the Glow-Worm's Cave" by Robert D. Beech.

This story is original to StarShipSofa.

Robert Beech is a practicing psychiatrist and a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine. He has published professional papers in a variety of scientific journals.

Narrated by: Anthony Babington.

Anthony Babington is a voice actor who looks just slightly off from how he sounds. From his secret volcano lair in Minnesota he narrates podcasts, and leases his soul to corporate America. He has previously recorded for Far Fetched Fables, Tales to Terrify, and The Cursed Inn. He can be found on Twitter as @AlephBaker.

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StarShipSofa No 663 Lucy Stone Jun 23, 2021

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Main Fiction: "Camp Cupid" by Lucy Stone.

This story first appeared in House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, vol. 1.

Lucy Stone is a freelance writer, lexicographer, and mother of one. Her stories have appeared in many speculative journals, including Dreamforge Magazine, Electric Spec, House of Zolo, and Bards and Sages Quarterly. Her major preoccupations are folklore, romance, and mental illness. Her stories contain many villains, but the ultimate one is usually despair, and she will fight it with every word she writes – even prepositions. She can be found on her website www.lucystonewriter.com, and on Twitter @LucyStoneWriter.

Narrated by Summer Brooks.

Summer Brooks is a story addict who watches too much television, and she enjoys putting her encyclopedic sci-fi geek knowledge to the test in discussions about sci-fi, horror, and comics. She has been doing just that on Slice of Sci-Fi since 2005, as co-host, producer, host and EIC, and as The Babylon Podcast co-host from 2006-2012.

Summer is also an avid reader and writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and thrillers, with a handful of published credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing an urban fantasy action-adventure, and a monster movie extravaganza. She also does narrations for Tales to Terrify and Escape Pod among others, and has doing audiobooks in her sights.

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StarShipSofa No 662 Zero HP Lovecraft Jun 09, 2021

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Main Fiction: "Eventual Consistency" by Zero HP Lovecraft.

This story was previously published at the author's website.

Zero HP Lovecraft is in the room with us right now. He is a known antichrist-hater and woman-respect-maximalist. He believes that love and emotions are chemicals but, hypocrite that he is, he relies on chemicals to tell him his emotions are chemicals. But he will not perish like a dog, oh no–he'll fight.

Narrated by Randal L. Schwartz.

Randal L. Schwartz is best well known for his seminal books on the Perl programming language that helped make the world wide web possible and popular. He produced a weekly audio and video podcast on open source software, but has given that up after 13 years to get those five hours per week back again. Between the podcast, and bouncing all over the world teaching programming and speaking at conferences, he's no stranger to the limelight. He enjoys pulling out his gear to record yet another narration, and likens it to "getting to read bedtime stories to the kids I never had", and looks forward to future assignments.

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StarShipSofa No 661 Joachim Heijndermans May 26, 2021

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Main Fiction: "The Udon at Tashihara's" by Joachim Heijndermans.

This story first appeared in Storyteller Magazine in July 2017.

Joachim Heijndermans writes, draws, and paints nearly every waking hour. Originally from the Netherlands, he’s been all over the world, boring people by spouting random trivia. His work has been featured in a number of anthologies and publications, such as Mad Scientist Journal, Ahoy Comics, Metaphorosis, The Gallery of Curiosities and Planet Scumm, and he’s currently in the midst of completing his first children’s book. His short story 'All Through the House' was adapted for the Netflix animated anthology 'Love, Death and Robots'. You can check out his other work at www.joachimheijndermans.com, or follow him on Twitter: @jheijndermans.

Narrated by Will Stagl.

Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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StarShipSofa No 660 N R M Roshak May 12, 2021

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Main Fiction: "Zest for Life" by N R M Roshak.

This story was first published in Future Science Fiction Digest, March 2019.

N. R. M. Roshak is an award-winning Canadian writer whose work includes short fiction, kidlit, nonfiction and translation. Her short fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Online, On Spec, Daily Science Fiction, Future Science Fiction Digest, and elsewhere, and was awarded a quarterly Writers of the Future prize. She studied philosophy and mathematics; has written code and wrangled databases for dot-coms, Harvard, and a Fortune 500 company; and has blogged for a Fortune 500 company and written over a hundred technical articles. You can find more of her work at http://nrmroshak.com.

Narrated by T F Ahmad.

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StarShipSofa No 659 Shannon Phillips and Christian Chadwell Apr 28, 2021

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Main Fiction: "Strangers When We Meet" by Shannon Phillips and Christian Chadwell

This story is original to StarShipSofa.

Shannon Phillips lives in Oakland, where she keeps two cats, three

boys, and a husband. She likes old things, wild places, tall tales,

and the people who tell them. Her website at joshannonphillips.com

includes links to her other work.

Christian Chadwell lives in Northern Kentucky with his three sassy

cats. Loves the worst in people, the Renaissance, and has never met a

deadline.

Narrated by Summer Brooks.

STORMBLOOD, the novel by Jeremy Szal, StarShipSofa's former fiction editor. It's about alien drugs, asteroid cities, weird space cults, found families, brotherhood, loss, and very weird aliens. The sequel, BLINDSPACE, comes out in October. The book is available in all formats, including audio on Audible.

Please buy Jeremy's book, he has very expensive gin tastes.

https://www.amazon.com/Stormblood/dp/B07ZKSJP5Z

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StarShipSofa No 658 John Wolf Apr 14, 2021

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Main Fiction: "The Prey" by John Wolf

This story was first published in Electric Spec, January 2020.

John Wolf is a librarian lurking in the Pacific Northwest. When he’s not shelving books or processing holds, he likes making things up and putting them on paper. A graduate of Washington State University – Vancouver, John has been writing and publishing for 10 years. His work has appeared in Tough Crime, Silver Blade, the Coffin Blossoms anthology, and others. He subsists on a strict diet of coffee, bad movies, and good podcasts. You can follow him on Twitter @JohnTheEngMajor.

Narrated by Anthony Babington

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