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StarShipSofa No 325 Carlie St. George Feb 19, 2014

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Main Fiction: “This Villain You Must Create” by Carlie St. George 06:00

Granite killed Mr. Malevolence on a Tuesday. In his defense, Mr. Malevolence had been trying to destroy the entire world at the time.

Carlie is a writer, a pop culture geek, a math class survivor, and a silly hat enthusiast. She’s a 2012 graduate of Clarion West Writer’s Workshop.

She also writes rather lengthy film critiques on My Geek Blasphemy, each dosed with a healthy pinch of snark and (hopefully) a dash of awesome.

Narrator: Adam Pracht

Adam is assistant editor of StarShipSofa, usually throwing it all together just in time. He works full time as public relations coordinator for McPherson College in Kansas. He also writes short genre fiction, does the odd narration (in all senses of the word odd) and was a finalist in the Stuff You Should Know podcast horror fiction contest.

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StarShipSofa No 324 Karl Bunker Feb 12, 2014

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Fiction 1: “Overtaken” by Karl Bunker 04:15

“I found you.”

The ship that said this had a mass of a few grams. It was composed of a central nodule less than a centimeter across, surrounded by kilometers-wide web constructed of sparsely distributed mononuclear wires.

In the past, Karl Bunker has been a software developer, jeweler, musical instrument maker, sculptor, mechanical technician, and a few other even-less-interesting things. He lives in a suburb of Boston, Mass., with his wife, a dog, two cats, three chickens and sundry fish.

Fiction 2: “This Quiet Dust” by Karl Bunker 28:00

If it had been human, if it had had a voice, perhaps it would have cried out. With shock, amazement, and with some fear, it might have made a sound, trembled...

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StarShipSofa Episode 323 Robert T Jeschonek Feb 05, 2014

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Fiction: “The Spinach Can’s Son” by Robert T. Jeschonek

“I am the can of spinach in a sailor man’s hand. He squeezes, expecting me to burst open and launch a blob of green power into his gaping maw.

“But I do not burst. He gets no mouthful of spinach, no surge of energy pumping up his arms to three times their size. That’s not how it works on this side of the tracks, my friend.

“You’re not in the funny pages anymore.”

Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, and podcasts have been published around the world. He won the grand prize in Pocket Books’ nationwide Strange New Worlds contest and was nominated for the British Fantasy Award. His young adult slipstream novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth. His...

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StarShipSofa No 322 Robert Scherrer Jan 29, 2014

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Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis 02:10

“Descartes’ Stepchildren” by Robert Scherrer 16:20

Robert Scherrer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University. His research area is cosmology, encompassing work on dark energy, dark matter, big bang nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale structure of the universe. He is also the author of a quantum mechanics textbook and has published several popular science articles and science fiction short stories.

THE SOFANAUTS IS PROUD TO PRESENT A LECTURE FROM HARRY TURTLEDOVE

A big thank you to McPherson College for allowing The Sofanauts to play this...

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StarShipSofa No 321 C.C. Finlay and Ken Liu Jan 21, 2014

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StarShipSofa No 320 Caroline M. Yoachim Tina Connolly Jan 15, 2014

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Fact: Science News by Jim Campanella 01:57

Sofanauts has Landed! 30:00

“Flash Bang Remember” by Caroline M. Yoachim & Tina Connolly 39:00

Caroline is a photographer and writer currently living in Seattle, Washington. She has published about two dozen fantasy and science fiction short stories, in markets that include Asimov’s,Lightspeed Magazine, Interzone, and Daily Science Fiction. In 2011 she was nominated for a Nebula Award for the novelette “Stone Wall Truth.”

Tina is a writer in Portland, Oregon, which is a splendidly green and drizzly city. She was born in St Louis and has lived in Northern California, but mostly where she grew up is the lovely college town of Lawrence, Kansas. She has a husband, Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

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StarShipSofa No 319 Meta Show Jan 08, 2014

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Each year I like to start with a Meta show… here is our 2014. Happy New Year everyone.

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StarShipSofa No 318 Rick Wilber Dec 18, 2013

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Fact: Film Talk by Dennis M. Lane 06:30

“Something Real” by Rick Wilber 14:30

Fact: Movie Soundtracks by David Raiklen 01:19:20

Interview: Ben Chaney 01:33:00

Rick is a journalism professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He is also a writer who has published two novels, several short-story collections, a memoir, and several college textbooks on writing and editing for some of the world’s largest publishers.

He also published some fifty poems in various magazines and reviews in the United States, Scotland and Ireland, and has published more than fifty short stories in magazines and anthologies ranging from Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine and...

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StarShipSofa No 317 Ian Creasey and Anaea Lay Dec 10, 2013

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People with wings!

Short Fiction: “On Moonlit Wings” by Anaea Lay 04:00

Anaea Lay lives in Madison, Wisconsin where she sells Real Estate under a different name, writes, cooks, plays board games, spoils her cat, runs the Strange Horizons podcast, and plots to take over the world. Her work has appeared in places such as Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex and Daily Science Fiction. You can find her online at anaealay.com

Interview: David Bradshaw 12:00

Main Fiction: “Joining the High Flyers” by Ian...

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StarShipSofa No 316 Marissa Lingen and Lettie Prell Dec 04, 2013

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Cove Art by Sparth

Two tales of interstellar etiquette.

Short Fiction: “Earth for Dummies” by Lettie Prell 03:00

Lettie Prell is the author of the novel, Dragon Ring (Flying Pen Press). Her work has also appeared in “Apex,” “Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine,” “Aiofie’s Kiss” and “Paranormal Underground.”

Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis. 13:00

Main Fiction: “The Radioactive Etiquette Book” by Marissa Lingen 29:30

Marissa Lingen is a freelance writer who lives in Minnesota with two large men and one small dog.

Narrators: Josh Roseman and Ibba...

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