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StarShipSofa No 395 Rjurik Davidson Jul 15, 2015

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Main Fiction: “Domine” by Rjurik Davidson

Originally published in “The Time Traveller’s Almanac“, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Rjurik Davidson is a freelance writer. He has written short stories, essays, reviews and screenplays. He has been short-listed for and won a number of awards. PS Publishing published his collection, The Library of Forgotten Books, in 2010. His novel, Unwrapped Sky, was published by Tor Books in April 2014. Sci Fi Now claims it can “go toe-to-toe with China Miéville’s best.” Kirkus Reviews calls it “Impressively imagined and densely detailed.” Newtown Review of Books says it’s “one volume you cannot ignore.” His novel, The Stars Askew will be out in October 2015 and his screenplay The Uncertainty Principle (co-written with Ben Chessell) is currently in development. Rjurik can be found at www.rjurik.com and tweets as...

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StarShipSofa 394 Robert J McCarter Jul 07, 2015

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Main Fiction: “Last Flight of the Acurus” by Robert J. McCarter

Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Robert J. McCarter lives in the mountains of Arizona with his beautiful wife and his ridiculously adorable dog, pounding away at the keyboard producing software (to make a living) and stories (to fill his soul and hopefully yours). He has writ ten several ghost-oriented novels: Shuffled Off, Drawing the Dead , and To Be a Fool . He is currently working on the Neutrinoman and Lightningirl series. Fun, pulpy books that follow our heroes as they adjust to their new powers, fall in love, and try to save the world. His short stories have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , Every Day Fiction , New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan and others. You can find out more about Robert and his work at RobertJMcCarter.com

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StarShipSofa No 393 Gregory Bossert Jul 01, 2015

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Main Fiction: “12 and Tag” by Gregory Bossert

Originally published in Asimov’s.

I began writing fiction in 2009, at the age of 47, after artists Iain McCaig and Dermot Power dared me to write a screenplay. I wrote two, and then tried my hand at short stories, the second of which sold to Asimov’s Science Fiction. After that, I was hooked.

My story “The Telling”, originally published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. And my story “Bloom” from the December 2013 issue of Asimov’s was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

My day job is in filmmaking; currently I wrangle spaceships and superheroes at the legendary Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco. My film projects include Beowulf, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Lucy, and the upcoming Tomorrowland and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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StarShipSofa No 392 Mercurio D Rivera and R Scott Bakker and Eric Schwitzgebel Jun 24, 2015

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Short Fiction: Reinstalling Eden, by R. Scott Bakker and Eric Schwitzgebel

Originally published in Nature magazine.

R. Scott Bakker has written eight novels translated into over dozen languages, including Neuropath, a dystopic meditation on the cultural impact of cognitive science, and the nihilistic epic fantasy series, The Prince of Nothing. He lives in London, Ontario with his wife and his daughter.

Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at University of California, Riverside. His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nature, Weird Tales,...

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StarShipSofa 391 Peter Watts Jun 17, 2015

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Promo: Class Title: The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic

Main Fiction: “Bethlemen” by Peter Watts

Peter Watts is a (former) scientist, author, and convicted felon who spent the first two decades of his adult life as a marine biologist. After fleeing academia for science fiction he became known for the habit of appending extensive technical bibliographies onto his novels; this both confers a veneer of credibility and covers his ass against nitpickers. Described by the Globe & Mail as “one of the very best [hard-sf writers] alive”, the overall effect of his prose is perhaps best summed up by critic James Nicoll: “Whenever I find my will to live becoming too powerful, I read Peter Watts”.His debut novel (Starfish) was a NY Times...

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StarShipSofa 390 Allen M. Steele Jun 10, 2015

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Fact: Looking back in Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis.

Interview with world-leading horror anthologist: Ellen Datlow, by Jeremy Szal

Main Fiction: “Ticking” by Allen M. Steele

Before becoming a science fiction author, Allen Steele was a journalist who’d worked for newspapers and magazines in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, and his home state of Tennessee. But SF was his first love, so he eventually ditched journalism and instead began producing that which made him decide to be a writer in the first place.

Since then, Steele has published eighteen novels and nearly a hundred short stories. His work has received numerous awards, including three Hugos, and has...

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StarShipSofa No 389 George R. R. Martin Jun 03, 2015

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Main Fiction: “Men of Greywater Station” by George R. R. Martin and Howard Waldrop

Originally published Amazing Stories 1976 and Songs of Stars and Shadows

Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winner George R. R. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of the landmark A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, has been called “the American Tolkien.”

Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, George R. R. Martin made his first sale in 1971, and soon established himself as one of the most popular SF writers of the seventies. He quickly became a mainstay of the Ben Bova Analog with stories such as “With Morning Comes Mistfall,” “And Seven Times Never Kill Man,” “The Second Kind of Loneliness,” “The...

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StarShipSofa No 388 Derek Kunsken May 27, 2015

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Fact: Science News by J J Campanella

Main Fiction: “Persephone Descending” by Derek Kunsken

Originally published in Analog Magazine

Derek Künsken is a writer of science fiction and fantasy living in Gatineau, Québec. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Gate, On Spec, the three Escape Artists podcasts, several anthologies, and multiple times in Asimov’s. In 2012, he was short-listed for the Aurora Award and in 2013 his novelette “Way of the Needle” won the Asimov’s Award. He has a masters degree in molecular biology and a bloodline that traces its way through seven generations of Québécois.

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...

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StarShipSofa 387 Damien Angelica Walters May 20, 2015

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Main Fiction: “Green is for Silence, Blue is for Voice, Red is for Whole, Black is for Choice” by Damien Angelica Walters.

Originally published at Daily Science Fiction

Damien Angelica Walters’ short fiction 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, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Apex. “The Floating Girls: A Documentary,” originally published in Jamais Vu, is on the 2014 Bram Stoker Award ballot for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.
Sing Me Your Scars, a collection of her short fiction, is out now from Apex Publications, and Paper Tigers, a novel, is forthcoming from Dark House Press. You can find her on Twitter @DamienAWalters or online at Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

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StarShipSofa No 386 Gwendolyn Clare May 13, 2015

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Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis

Main Fiction: “Stone to Stone, Blood to Blood” by Gwendolyn Clare

Originally published in Asimov’s.

Gwendolyn Clare resides in North Carolina, where she tends a vegetable garden and a flock of backyard ducks and wonders why she ever lived in the frozen northlands. She has a PhD in mycology, which is useful for identifying wild mushrooms but not for much else. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. She can be found online at gwendolynclare.com.

Narrated by Jonathan Sharp

I was born in southern New Mexico in the nexus between Area 51, Trinity Site, and Spaceport America. I attended culinary school in Portland Oregon and have managed a number of restaurants, cafés, and...

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