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StarShipSofa No 335 Suzanne J. Willis Apr 30, 2014

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Main Fiction: “Number 73 Glad Avenue” by Suzanne J. Willis 02:00

“What time does the clock have, Charlie?”

Mary looked left, dark, bobbed hair brushing her shoulders. She heard him mutter then carefully shut the doors, locking the timepieces away, before walking around to face her, his little tin feet clicking softly against the wooden floor.

“12 May 1923. Six pm.”

Suzanne J. Willis is a graduate of Clarion South 2009. Her work has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Schlock Magazine, AntipodeanSF, Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi, and anthologies by Fablecroft Publishing, Kayelle Press and the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. She works full-time and writes in the spaces around it, inspired by fairytales, ghost stories and all things strange. Suzanne lives in Melbourne, Australia, and can be found online at...

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StarShipSofa No 334 James Patrick Kelly Apr 23, 2014

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Fact: Science News by J J Campanella

Main Fiction: “The Biggest” by James Patrick Kelly 33:30

“The Genesee Street fire,” said Big. “There were eighteen people trapped on the fifth floor.”

“And you rescued...

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StarShipSofa No 333 Special Fantasy Edition Aliette de Bodard Apr 16, 2014

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“In the Age of Iron and Ashes” by Aliette de Bodard.

They ran the girl down, in the grey light of dawn: a ring of copper-mailed horsemen, racing after her until her exhaustion finally felled her.

Yudhyana sat on his horse, shivering in the cold morning air, and thought of home—of the narrow, spice-filled streets of Rasamuri, and of his daughters shrieking with delight as he raced them in the courtyard. Anything to prevent him from focusing on what was happening.

Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Engineer. In her spare time, she writes speculative fiction: her Aztec noir trilogy Obsidian and Blood is published by Angry Robot, and her short stories have appeared in markets such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Asimov’s and the Year’s Best Science Fiction. She has won a Nebula, a Locus and a British Science Fiction Association Award. Her latest release is the Vietnamese space opera On a Red Station, Drifting....

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StarShipSofa No 332 Sofia Samatar and Nina Allan (BSFA Awards Special Part 2) Apr 09, 2014

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StarShipSofa is proud to present all four nominees in the “Best Short Fiction” category of the British Science Fiction Association! You can vote for the BSFA awards here by Monday, April 14.

Main Fiction 3: “Selkie Stories are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar 02:00

I hate selkie stories. They’re always about how you went up to the attic to look for a book, and you found a disgusting old coat and brought it downstairs between finger and thumb and said “What’s this?”, and you never saw your mom again.

Sofia is the author of the novel A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, April 2013). She edits nonfiction and poetry for Interfictions: A...

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StarShipSofa No 331 E.J. Swift and Tori Truslow (BSFA Awards Special Part 1) Apr 02, 2014

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StarShipSofa is proud to present all four nominees in the “Best Short Fiction” category of the British Science Fiction Association! You can vote for the BSFA awards here by Monday, April 14.

Part 2 coming next week!

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Main Fiction 1: “Saga’s Children” by E.J. Swift 2:30

You will have heard of our mother, the astronaut Saga Wärmedal. She is famous, and she is infamous. Her face, instantly recognizable, appears against lists of extraordinary feats, firsts and lasts and onlys. There are the pronounced cheekbones, the long jaw, that pale hair cropped close to the head. In formal portraits she looks enigmatic, but in images caught unaware – perhaps at...

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StarShipSofa No 330 Leah Cypess and Mary Soon Lee Mar 25, 2014

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Mothering Sunday Special! (March 30 in the UK): Two stories of maternal angst.

Main Fiction 1: “Pause Time” by Mary Soon Lee 03:40

Twenty minutes into the transatlantic flight, Connor started wailing. Pauline cradled him in her arms. Then she rocked him, she offered him her breast, she sang to him; Connor continued to cry.

The man sitting on her right gave her a thin smile. “Did you forget the baby’s pauser code?”

“No,” Pauline mumbled, wishing she could sink through the floor into the cargo hold. “I’ve never used the pauser.”

In 1992 Mary started writing and submitting short stories, mainly in the science fiction and fantasy genres. She has had over seventy stories published, including appearances in The Year’s Best SF #4 and #5, edited by David Hartwell; her story “Cause and Consequence” (Interzone #136, October 1998) won first place in...

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StarShipSofa No 329 Indrapramit Das and Charlie Jane Anders Mar 19, 2014

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Spacetime Special!

Short Fiction: “Karina Who Kissed Spacetime” by Indrapramit Das 01:53

I always remember snow speckling the orange cone of streetlight that held my first kiss. It wasn’t snowing that night. This was before time fractured, left me slipping through its cracks like a bead of water. Perhaps it had been snowing in some other timeline during that first kiss. But not that one. It had barely been a first kiss, even. But it had been cold — cold enough to turn gutter water to slippery glass by our feet.

Indrapramit Das is a writer and artist from Kolkata, India. His fiction has appeared publications including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s and Apex Magazine, as well as anthologies such as The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, Year’s Best SF 18, Aliens: Recent Encounters and Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and...

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StarShipSofa No 328 Robin Wasserman Mar 12, 2014

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Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis 03:00

Introduction to “The End is Nigh” – Vol. 1 of “The Apocalypse Triptych” Edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey 16:20

Main Fiction: “The Balm and the Wound” by Robin Wasserman 22:00

Robin Wasserman is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, the Cold Awakening Trilogy, Hacking Harvard, and the Seven Deadly Sins series, which was adapted into a popular television miniseries. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in several anthologies as well as The...

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StarShipSofa No 327 David D. Levine Mar 05, 2014

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Cover Art: Aeon Lux

Fact: Synthetic Voices by Jimmy Rodgers 06:00

Main Fiction: “Pupa” by David D. Levine 20:00

She had already molted seven times and knew this feeling well, but this next molt would be her last as a juvenile. After this molt, she would pupate for three months, her ugly juvenile body replaced by a gleaming adults’. She was thrilled. She was terrified.

David D. Levine is the author of over fifty published science fiction and fantasy stories. His work has appeared in magazines including Asimov’s, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy and has won or been nominated for awards including the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Campbell....

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StarShipSofa No 326 D. Thomas Minton Feb 26, 2014

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Fact Article: Science News by J J Campanella 01:40

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Main Fiction: “The Schrödinger War” by D. Thomas Minton 37:00

You’d think after seven tries, I could get the living part right, or at least be a pro at dying, but both are still messy and painful. At least dying doesn’t scare me anymore.

D. Thomas Minton recently traded a tropical Pacific Island for the Pacific Northwest of the continental USA, and now lives a short walk from vineyards and an alpaca farm. Because of the miracle—or is it the curse—of modern technology, he still moonlights as a tropical marine biologist. At any given time, he can be found working in his garden with his wife and daughter…and too many...

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