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StarShipSofa 557 David Whitaker Oct 03, 2018

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Main Fiction: "Choose" by David Whitaker

This story is a StarShipSofa original.

David Whitaker is originally from the UK, but having ambled around a bit somehow found himself living in New Zealand. He has a degree in Journalism, however ultimately decided that as he prefers making things up it should probably be a resource rather than a profession. His fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Online, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Sci Phi Journal, and AntipodeanSF, and you can find him and all his other works at wordsbydavid.com.

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, StarShip Sofa, and Escape Pod among others, and has doing audiobooks in her sights.

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StarShipSofa No 556 Liz Coleman Sep 25, 2018

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Main Fiction: "Join" by Liz Coleman

This story originally appeared at Lightspeed.

Liz Coleman has been published in Lightspeed Magazine and Beneath Ceaseless Skies and is a graduate of Viable Paradise. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and too many philosophy books.

Narrated by: Jason Satterlund

Jason Satterlund has been writing and working on films for over 25 years. He has extensive experience in all areas of production, including directing, writing, cinematography, and editing. He is the only person ever to conduct a night shoot in the ancient city of Petra, and the first person in America to use film lenses on an HD camera. He wrote and directed the award-winning feature film The Record Keeper, which premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in London and is currently on the world wide festival circuit. He is also the director of the Star Wars fan film The Force and the Fury. When he isn’t busy directing his own projects, he enjoys teaching film making workshops, shaping the film makers of the future.

Fact: Science News by J J Campanella

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StarShipSofa No 555 Timothy Mudie Sep 19, 2018

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Main Fiction: "Dogface on Ice" by Timothy Mudie

This story is original to StarShipSofa.

Timothy Mudie has had stories published in Lightspeed, Aliterate, Metaphorosis, and several other magazines and anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, where he works as an editor for a trade publishing house.

Narrated by: Andrew Leman

Andrew Leman is a producer, designer, actor, writer and director, not necessarily in that order. He has appeared on professional stages in Chicago and Los Angeles, and is a member of Theatre Banshee in Burbank, California. He has designed graphics and props for numerous films and TV shows. With his friend & collaborator of many years, Sean Branney, Andrew has been running The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society since 1984, and has developed numerous film, audio, and gaming projects, including the award-winning motion pictures The Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in Darkness. He is the author of Lovecraftian Times and is the designer of highly authentic prop documents for Call of Cthulhu gamers.

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StarShip Sofa No 554 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Sep 12, 2018

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Main Fiction: "e to the h" by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Alvaro's book of interviews with Robert Silverberg, Traveler of Worlds, was a Hugo and Locus award finalist. Alvaro's more than thirty stories and one hundred reviews, essays and interviews have appeared in magazines such as Clarkesworld, Asimov's, Apex, Analog, Lightspeed, Nature, Strange Horizons, Galaxy's Edge, Lackington's, and anthologies such as The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, Cyber World, Humanity 2.0, and This Way to the End Times. Alvaro has a book review column at Intergalactic Medicine Show, a film review column at Words, and he edits the roundtable blog for Locus.

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.

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StarShipSofa No 553 John A Karr Sep 05, 2018

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Main Fiction: "The Foot Race" by John A. Karr

John Andrew Karr writes of the strange and spectacular. He is the author of the Mars Wars series, with the first novel, DETONATION EVENT, coming in February 2019. He has also written novels and novellas as John A. Karr. Short stories have appeared in Flame Tree Publishing's Pirates & Ghosts and Crime & Mystery anthologies, Danse Macabre, Allegory and others. He’s a North Carolina resident, IT worker, and all-around family guy. He is also an ardent believer in the quote from Carl van Doren, U.S. man of letters: Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

Narrated by: Thomas Pipkin

Tom works in IT at the University of Warwick where he tries to keep on top of Microsoft and all its creations. His life goes like this: Family, Cats, PC Gaming, Total War, Voice Narration, IT Trainer, Time Poverty. When Tom does get a spell from his grown up life he’s usually in his loft, lost in fantasy worlds of PC gaming, trying to record his voice without a cat shouting abuse at him.

Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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StarShipSofa No 552 Joachim Heijndermans Aug 29, 2018

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Main Fiction: "The Scars to Prove It" by Joachim Heijndermans

This story is original to StarShipSofa.

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 about toys, comics and film. A graduate of the Kubert School in New Jersey, he works as a graphic designer and cartoonist. His work has been featured in a number of publications, such as Mad Scientist Journal, Asymmetry Fiction, Metaphorosis, Econoclash Review, and the Gallery of Curiosities and Gathering Storm Magazine, and he's currently in the midst of completing his first children's book. You can find his work at joachimheijndermans.com, or follow him on Twitter: @jheijndermans.

Narrator: Mark Kilfoil

Mark "the Encaffeinated ONE" Kilfoil loves fiction, so much so that he's written some (such as the Parsec-nominated Tainted Roses), read quite a lot (a library of over a thousand half-read books and growing) and now narrates them (sometimes actually recorded for others). He's found that volunteering for a dozen years in radio was a decent way to get a full-time job as a Program Director at a community radio station in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, but not such a great way to finish his thesis, so he stopped at a Masters in Computer Science. He can be heard frequently on CHSRfm.ca, and two of his shows regularly appear as podcasts, and can be found at encaffeinated.ca and theweirdshow.com. He likes cats enough to pet them but not enough to own one, and computers enough to own several but pet none of them. He will someday write a million words, but at this rate, that will require life extension, so he eagerly awaits the ability to upload into a computer, if that hasn't already happened and this is all only a simulation.

Fact: Science News by J J Campanella

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StarShipSofa No 551 Luke Hindmarsh Aug 22, 2018

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Main Fiction: "Out of the Blue, Into the Black" by Luke Hindmarsh

Luke E.T. Hindmarsh was born in Oxford, UK before being dragged all over the world by his parents, courtesy of the Royal Air Force. Before starting to write full time, he worked as a Criminal Barrister in London for ten years, which doesn't qualify him to make good coffee but did mean he had to wear a wig and gown in court. He now lives in the Scandinavian wilds of Denmark with his wife and their half-viking children. His first novel, a SF crime thriller called Mercury’s Son, was published by Crossroad Press in 2017. When not writing, Luke teaches Shinseido Okinawan Karate, works on his motorcycle and pretends he can play the guitar.

Narrated by: Pixie Willo

Pixie is a voice actor, cabaret performer & slam poet from the Blue Mountains in NSW Australia.She is currently finishing a BA in Theatre, Performance& Creative writing at the University of New England. She enjoys writing short fiction,her own brand of weird poetry, plays for radio and stage and is currently producing her first play for children.She hosts the ‘Off-Beet Poetry Slam’ held bi-monthly in the Blue Mountains, and is a theatre reviewer for 2ser FM in Sydney. Pixie is also a narrator for AntipodeanSF.

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StarShipSofa No 550 David Court Aug 15, 2018

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Main Fiction: "ISOL-8" by David Court

This story is original to StarShip Sofa.

David Court is a short story author and novelist, whose works have appeared in over a dozen venues

including Tales to Terrify, Visions from The Void, Fear's Accomplice, and The Voices Within. Whilst

primarily a horror writer, he also writes science fiction, poetry and satire. His newest anthology –

Scenes of Mild Peril – is due for release in Autumn 2018 from Stitched Smile Publications.

As well as being a writer and a member of the Horror Writer’s Association, David works as a

Software Developer and lives in Coventry with his wife, three cats, and an ever-growing beard.

David's wife once asked him if he'd write about how great she was. David replied that he would, because he specialized in short fiction. Despite that, they are still married.

He can frequently be found lurking online on twitter as @FoldsFive or at davidjcourt.co.uk.

Narrator: Nick Camm

Nick has done almost nothing else for the past 12 months other than narrate audio-books. He has not slept, eaten, felt the gentle touch of the sun, rode a bicycle, broken eggs to make an omelette, written his film script, or bought a Mark Rothko fridge magnet. He did, however, find time to get a couple of tattoos. There's always time for tattoos.

The books he narrated were almost exclusively crime-fiction. Professionally, sci-fi still eludes him. He doesn't know why.

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StarShipSofa No 549 Michael Reid Aug 08, 2018

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Main Fiction: "The Third Man" by Michael Reid

This story is a StarShip Sofa original.

Michael Reid lives near Toronto, Canada, where he divides his time between studying the stars and writing stories set among them. His work has appeared in Interzone, Escape Pod, and Cast of Wonders. Follow him on Twitter at @writereid or check out his full publication list at MichaelAReid.com.

Narrated by: Anthony Babington

Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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StarShipSofa No 548 Paul R Hardy Aug 01, 2018

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Main Fiction: "The Breakdown of the Parasite Host Relationship" by Paul R. Hardy

Originally published in UFO.

Paul R. Hardy is a fungal infection in the shape of the letter 'R' that lives inside the brainstem of an oblivious human meatsack by the name of Paul Hardy. The fungal infection has had work published in Unidentified Funny Objects, Far Fetched Fables and Diabolical Plots, while the human meatsack works as a hospital receptionist in order to provide nutrients for the fungus. Any resemblance between this living arrangement and the content of the story that follows is entirely coincidental.

Narrator: Rish Outfield

Rish Outfield is a writer, voice actor, and audiobook narrator. He can be heard co-hosting the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and That Gets My Goat podcasts, where he and Bigg Anklevich entertainingly waste much of their time. He also features his own stories on the Rish Outcast podcast. He once got a job because of his Sean Connery impersonation… but has lost two due to his Samuel L. Jackson impression.

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