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StarShipSofa No 375 James Aquilone Feb 18, 2015

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StarShipSofa No 374 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro/Jim Hume Feb 11, 2015

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Main Fiction: “The Memory-Setter’s Apprentice” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Originally published at: Fantasy Scroll Mag

Those who survive combat with the Sarakul return home with holes in their memories. As memory-setters, it’s our job to delve inside their skulls and repair the damage.

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is co-author, with Robert Silverberg, of When the Blue Shift Comes. Alvaro’s short fiction and Rhysling-nominated poetry have appeared in Analog, Nature, Galaxy’s Edge, Apex, Buzzy Mag, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, and other venues. Alvaro has also published reviews, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons and elsewhere, and currently edits the blog for Locus magazine.

Narrated by: Ibba Armancas

Ibba Armancas is a nomadic screenwriter/director based in Los Angeles and Seattle. Her first feature film is due for release in 2015, and she...

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StarShipSofa No 373 Kate O’Connor Mark Lawrence Evo Terra Feb 04, 2015

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Short Fiction: “Potential” by Mark Lawrence

Interview: Evo and Sheila Terra Shevo

Main Fiction: “A Concert of Flowers” by Kate O’Connor

Originally published at Daily Science Fiction, reprinted in Fantasy Scroll Mag.

The packed concert hall was far from silent. People whispered to their neighbors, fancy clothing rustled, jewelry chimed. In the wings, William Reis waited, the sound of his rapidly thumping heart filling his ears.

Kate O’Connor was born in Virginia in 1982. She graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott in 2009 and now lives in the New York area. She has been writing science fiction and fantasy since 2011. Her work has most recently appeared in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, and Escape Pod. In between telling...

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StarShipSofa No 372 Norman Spinrad/Tobias S Buckell Jan 28, 2015

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Short Fiction: “The Universe Reef” by Tobias S. Buckell

Jackson buckles his leathers tighter, and pulls on a fur. “The height causes that cold,” he shouts. “We’re like mountaineers!”

I want to flee the bitter cold and escape the wind, which seems to pierce my skin and scrub my bones. But I don’t want to miss seeing the Stone Table with my own eyes.

Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times Bestselling author born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work.

His novels and over 50 stories have been translated into 17 different languages. His work has been nominated for awards like the Hugo, Nebula, Prometheus, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Author.

He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio with his wife, twin daughters, and a pair of dogs. He can be found online at www.TobiasBuckell.com

Narrated by: Nobilis...

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StarShipSofa No 371 Ian Creasey/Ian Whates Jan 20, 2015

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Short Fiction: The Piratical Sabbital, by Ian Whates

You’re good, you know that? Well yes, I do realise that’s what you’re paid to be.

No, really, I wasn’t being a smart-ass… sorry. I just never realised it was going to be this realistic.

Ian Whates lives in a quiet Cambridgeshire village with his partner, Helen, Honey, a manic cocker spaniel, and Calvin, a tailless black cat. He currently has two published novel series: the Noise books (space opera with a twist) via Solaris, and the City of 100 Rows trilogy (urban fantasy with steampunk overtones and SF underpinning) via Angry Robot. Some 60 of his short stories have appeared in various venues, two of which were shortlisted for BSFA Awards, while his work has received honourable mentions in Years Best anthologies. Most recently his fiction featured in Galaxy’s Edge #10...

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StarShipSofa No 370 Anna North Jan 14, 2015

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Main Fiction: Lullaby, by Anna North

Originally published in Robot Uprisings, edited by John Joseph Adams and Daniel H. Wilson

I never wanted to move to my grandfather’s house in the first place. He died before I was born, but Mom talked all the time about what a genius he was, and that year I hated everything Mom liked. I was sixteen, my dad had died the year before, and I didn’t see why I should act like anything would ever be all right.

Anna North graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2009, having received a Teaching- Writing Fellowship and a Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly , Glimmer Train, Nautilus , and in the anthology Robot Uprisings. Her nonfiction has appeared in Jezebel , BuzzFeed , and Salon, and she is now a staff editor at the New York Times. Her first novel, America...

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StarShipSofa No 369 Cat Rambo Jan 07, 2015

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Fact: Ray Harryhausen by Marc Zicree Mr SciFi.

Main Fiction: “Bots d’Armor” by Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches by the shores of an eagle-haunted lake in the Pacific Northwest. Her 150+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and Tor.com. Her short story, “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain,” from her story collection Near + Far (Hydra House Books), was a 2012 Nebula nominee. Her editorship of Fantasy Magazine earned her a World Fantasy Award nomination in 2012. She is the current vicepresident of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers or America. For more about her, as well as links to her fiction, see...

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StarShipSofa No 368 Brent Knowles Andy Weir Dec 31, 2014

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Interview: Andy Weir – The Martian

Fact: Science News by J J Campanella

Main Fiction: “Digital Rights” by Brent Knowles

The Assistant responsible for the primary thruster arrangement killed itself just ten days after Izzy arrived on the solar station. The panicked chatter of the other Assistants prevented them from continuing with their own duties. Horror, speculation, and worse of all, wonder, flowed across the station’s network.

Brent Knowles has been published in several magazines and anthologies including Perihelion, Abyss and Apex, Neo-Opsis, On Spec and Writers of the Future. A veteran of the videogame’s industry (where he spent ten years building hit role-playing games with BioWare) he now spends most of his time raising two young boys and writing. Online he can be found at Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

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StarShipSofa No 367 E Saxey/Stephen V Ramey Dec 17, 2014

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Main Fiction: “Not Smart, Not Clever”, by E Saxey

E. Saxey is a queer Londoner and fan of floral-flavour chocolate, whose work has appeared in Apex, Holdfast, Daily Science Fiction and Spacewitch Moonshots, and anthologies including The Lowest Heaven and Pandemonium: The Rite of Spring.

Narrated by Elizabeth Armancas

Ibba Armancas is a nomadic screenwriter/director based in Los Angeles and Seattle. Her first feature film is due for release in 2015, and she is currently writing the pilot for a new show by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment (http://zombieorpheus.com/). She regularly makes terrible life choices in pursuit of stories, and is very bad at finding time to work on her website.You can follow her exploits on Twitter @IbbaArmancas.Short Fiction: Cycles, by Stephen V. RameyOriginally published at Every Day...

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StarShipSofa No 366 Paul Berger Alexander Burns Dec 10, 2014

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Main Fiction: Subduction, by Paul Berger

Paul M. Berger has been a Japanese bureaucrat, an M.I.T. program administrator, an Internet
entrepreneur, a butterfly wrangler, a museum tour guide and (God help him) a Wall Street
recruiter, all of which, in the aggregate, may have prepared him for nothing except the cretion
of speculative fiction. His work has appeared in publications including The Magazine of Fantasy
& Science Fiction, Rich Horton’s Space Opera, Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction
and Fantasy 2011, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Podcastle and Escape Pod. The story of his
battle against giant Japanese spiders was the first true-life memoir published in Weird Tales.
He is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion workshop, and is a founding member of the stunningly
talented New York-based writers’ group Altered Fluid. His next published story will appear...

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