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StarShipSofa No 587 Forrest Brazeal May 07, 2019

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Main Fiction: "The Girl of the Golden City" by Forrest Brazeal

This story is original to StarShipSofa.

Forrest Brazeal is a software engineer, writer, and cartoonist based in rural Virginia. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Diabolical Plots, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. Find him at forrestbrazeal.com or on twitter @forrestbrazeal.

This story is narrated by the author.

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StarShipSofa No 586 David Gray May 01, 2019

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Main Fiction: "Wreckers' Moon" by David Gray

Gray is a Scots-born writer and creative director living in Brooklyn, NYC.

His journalistic and design credits include Blackbook, Gear magazine, Out, Time Inc, Lollipop mag and others. His fiction has found its way to Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, Metaphorosis, the forthcoming Children of the Sky anthology, Chrome Baby and others. Gray’s first sci-fi novel – Moonflowers – is in contract to print early 2019, with a sequel and a Scotland-set modern fairy tale following and publishing soon after. He did so much unseen world-building for Wreckers’ Moon that he’d love to make it into a novel some day soon.

Narrated by: Andrea Richardson

Andrea is a British singer and actress. With extensive stage and film performances to her name, she began narration and voiceover work in 2014 but enjoys using her existing skills in a different way. You can find her at andrea-richardson.co.uk and on Facebook.

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StarShipSofa No 585 Gerri Leen Apr 23, 2019

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Main Fiction: "What the Rain Brings" by Gerri Leen

This story was originally published in A Rustle of Dark Leaves: Tales from the Shadows of the Forest (Misanthrope Press, 2012).

Gerri Leen lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. In addition to being an avid reader, she’s passionate about horse racing, tea, and whisky, and her latest obsession is ASMR vids. She has work appearing in Nature, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, Cast of Wonders, and others. She’s edited several anthologies for independent presses, is finishing some longer projects, and is a member of SFWA and HWA. See more at gerrileen.com.

Narrated by: Andrea Richardson

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StarShipSofa No 584 Chris Beckett Apr 17, 2019

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Main Fiction: "The Peacock Clock" by Chris Beckett

Originally published in the short fiction collection of the same name.

Chris Beckett’s short stories began to appear in print in 1990. He has published 6 novels to date, the most recent being America City, and 3 short story collections, of which the latest is Spring Tide. His next novel, Beneath the World, a Sea, will appear in April 2019. He won the Clarke award for his novel Dark Eden, and the Edge Hill Prize for his story collection, The Turing Test. A former social worker, social work manager and social work lecturer, but now concentrating on his writing, he lives in Cambridge, England.

Narrated by: George Hrab

Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, producer, composer, and heliocentrist George Hrab has written and produced six independent CDs and a concert DVD; published two books; recorded hundreds of episodes of an award-winning podcast; emceed countless science conferences; been a TEDx speaker; and has even performed for President Clinton. He’s traveled to four continents promoting critical thinking, science, and skepticism through story and song. George is considered one of the preeminent skeptic/science/atheist/geek-culture music icons currently living in his apartment.

Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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StarShipSofa No 583 Rich Larson Apr 10, 2019

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Main Fiction: "Heavies" by Rich Larson

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Originally published in Infinity Wars

Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. His work has appeared in numerous Year's Best anthologies and been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Czech, French and Italian. His debut novel, Annex, came out from Orbit Books in July 2018, and his debut collection, Tomorrow Factory, followed in October 2018 from Talos Press. He enjoys travelling, learning languages, playing soccer, watching basketball, shooting pool, and dancing kizomba.

Narrated by: Robert A. K. Gonyo

Robert A. K. Gonyo is a theatre director, actor, podcaster, sound designer, voiceover artist, musician, and tour-guide residing in Queens, NY, USA. He is the producer of Go See a Show!, New York City's independent theatre podcast (goseeashowpodcast.com), as well as the producer of Apparitions, a podcast of new radio horror plays. robertgonyo.com

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StarShipSofa No 582 Chris Barnham Apr 03, 2019

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Main Fiction: "All That is Solid" by Chris Barnham

Originally published in Compelling Science Fiction.

Chris Barnham spent a long time working for the British government, but now just makes stuff up for himself. Chris has a novel out, with US publisher, Filles Vertes Publishing. It’s called Fifty-One, and features a time-traveling cop marooned in 1940s London, forced to choose between saving the future or the woman he loves. Interzone magazine described it as "better plotted than Connie Willis".

Narrated by: Ibba Armancas

Ibba Armancas is an award winning writer/director based in Los Angeles available for audio or cinematic projects across the board. She’s read for Starship Sofa, Escape Pod, the Drabblecast, and Psuedopod, but still hasn’t found time to build a website and encourages listeners to shame her about it on instagram or twitter.

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StarShipSofa No 581 Dimitra Nikolaidou Mar 27, 2019

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Main Fiction: "Heart of Vesta" by Dimitra Nikolaidou

This story is original to StarShip Sofa.

Dimitra Nikolaidou is a PhD candidate researching the relationship between

speculative fiction and role-playing games. Her fiction has been published in Gallery

of Curiosities, See the Elephant, Metaphorosis, the anthology After the Happily Ever

After, and various Greek-language venues. She is an in-house writer and editor for

Archetypo Publications, teaches creative writing focused on the fantastic, and is

always planning a vacation somewhere in Europe.

Narrated by: Nikolle Doolin

Nikolle is a voice actor and a writer of fiction, scripts, and poetry. She has performed narrations for a number of popular and award-winning podcasts, such as The NoSleep Podcast, Tales to Terrify, and Far Fetched Fables. She also narrates classic literature in her own podcast Audio Literature Odyssey. To learn more about Nikolle, visit her website at nikolledoolin.com.

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StarShipSofa No 580 Floris M. Kleijne and Holly Schofield Mar 20, 2019

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Flash Fiction: "Frog Soup" by Floris M. Kleijne

This story originally appeared at Daily Science Fiction (August 2, 2016).

Floris M. Kleijne is the author of over two dozen short stories in Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy's Edge, Factor Four, and numerous other publications, He lives in a 200 year old house in the Dutch river district, but does most of his writing on trains. Floris was the first Dutchman to win the prestigious Writers of the Future contest, as well as the first Dutchman to qualify for active membership of the SFWA. He blogs about writing , Real Life™, and atrocious customer service on www.floriskleijne.com, where you can also read more of his stories.

Narrated by: Anthony Babington

Anthony Babington is an aspiring 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 and The Cursed Inn. He can be found on Twitter as @AlephBaker.

Main Fiction: "Generation Gap" by Holly Schofield

This story first appeared in the anthology Lazarus Risen (2016).

Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life. Her stories have appeared in such publications as Analog, Lightspeed, and Tesseracts, are used in university curricula, and have been translated into several languages. She hopes to save the world through science fiction and homegrown heritage tomatoes. Find her at hollyschofield.wordpress.com.

Narrated by: Geoffrey Welchman

Geoffrey works in digital media. A former podcaster, he also narrated several stories for Far Fetched Fables. He lives in Baltimore with his wife Betty. You can find him online at geoffreywelchman.com.

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StarShip Sofa No 579 Alan Fisher Mar 13, 2019

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Main Fiction: "Pangloss" by Alan Fisher

This story is original to StarShip Sofa.

Alan Fisher is an attorney living in Washington, D.C. He's published two novellas, Servant of the Muses and A Pearl for Her Eyes, under the name Brad White. Both are available wherever ebooks are sold. His short story, "The Confession of Diego Stoessel," was included in Alban Lake Publishing's recent Lovecraftian anthology, City in the Ice. His favorite authors include John le Carré, William Gibson, Raymond Chandler, and Neal Stephenson. When not writing, he enjoys playing board games with his wife and sons and running role-playing games for his friends.

Narrated by: Eric Luke

Eric Luke is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film Explorers, which is currently in development as a remake, the comic books Ghost and Wonder Woman, and wrote and directed the Not Quite Human films for Disney TV. His current project Interference, a meta horror audiobook about an audiobook… that kills, is available free on iTunes and at Quillhammer.com.

Fact: Looking Back At Genre History byAmy H Sturgis

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StarShipSofa No 578 Alex Shvartsman Mar 06, 2019

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Main Fiction: "Whom He May Devour" by Alex Shvartsman

This story was first published in Nautilus(2016).

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. Over 100 of his short stories have appeared in Nature, Analog, Strange Horizons, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and many other magazines and anthologies. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction (2015 and 2017). He is the editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F, and of Future Science Fiction Digest. His latest collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories, was published in 2018. His website is www.alexshvartsman.com.

Narrated by: Margaret Essex

Margaret lives “the good life”, on a small piece of rural N.S.W. Australia, with an amazing man a couple of pets, all the usual biting, stinging, critters that make great horror stories for our visitors and several rambunctious wombats.

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