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StarShipSofa 415 Anthony Cardno and Zoltan Istvan Dec 16, 2015

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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 Invaders for the late, lamented Amazing Heroes. His...

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StarShipSofa No 414 Beth Cato, Rachael K. Jones and Seth Shostak Dec 09, 2015

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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 desert, where she lives with her husband, son, and requisite cat. Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.

Narrated by: Krista Sorta

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StarShipSofa No 413 Damien Angelica Walters and Rebecca Birch and Vinay Gupta Dec 01, 2015

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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 Weird Fiction: Volume One, Cassilda’s Song, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Apex Magazine.

She was...

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StarShipSofa No 412 Brian Trent Nov 25, 2015

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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 the 2013 Story of the Year Reader’s Poll), Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, COSMOS, Strange Horizons, Galaxy’s Edge, Crossed Genres, The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, and much more. He lives in Connecticut, where he works...

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StarShipSofa No 411 Caroline M. Yoachim and Tricia Glock Nov 17, 2015

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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, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed. Her debut short story collection, SEVEN WONDERS OF A ONCE AND FUTURE WORLD & OTHER STORIES, is...

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StarShipSofa No 410 Paul Levinson Nov 11, 2015

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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), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012), have been translated into ten languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of Locus...

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StarShipSofa No 409 Sunil Patel and Prof Christopher Riley Nov 04, 2015

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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 his fiction has appeared in Saturday Night Reader, Fireside Magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Flash Fiction Online, and The Book...

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StarShipSofa No 408 Eric James Stone and Sue Burke and Ana Matronic Oct 28, 2015

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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 translator, and her recent translations include a Angélica Gorodischer’s novel “Prodigies” published by Small Beer press, and a short story in the most recent Triangulations anthology. She attended Clarion East, and she’s a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the American Translators Association, and the Spanish Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Association. For more about her and her...

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StarShipSofa No 407 Django Wexler Oct 21, 2015

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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. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts.

Narrated by: 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...

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StarShipSofa No 406 Zach Chapman and Kate O’Connor and Serah Eley Oct 14, 2015

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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 Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) English Award for creative writing. He currently lives in Austin with his Librarian wife Taylor, a cat, a rabbit and a lazy-eyed rescue dog names Dingo. Follow his future publication announcements on twitter: @chappyzach

Narrated by Jonathan Sharp

I was born in southern New Mexico in the nexus between Area 51, Trinity Site, and Spaceport America. I...

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