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StarShip Sofa No 567 Doug Smith45:12

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PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 434 – LAST WEEK 431 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: "A Bird in the Hand" by Doug Smith This story originally appeared in Warrior Wise Woman 3 (Norilana Press, 2010. Douglas Smith is a multi-award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculat ...…

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StarShipSofa No 566 Dennis Mombauer51:05

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PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 431 – LAST WEEK 428 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: "A Fear of Falling" by Dennis Mombauer This story is original to StarShipSofa. Dennis Mombauer currently lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as a writer of speculative fiction, textual experiments, and poetry. He also works as a freelance researche ...…

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StarShipSofa No 565 David Barr Kirtley1:07:28

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ATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 432 – LAST WEEK 428 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: "Veil of Ignorance" by David Barr Kirtley Originally published in Lightspeed. "David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he’s interviewed well over 300 guests, including Neil Gaiman, Geor ...…

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StarShipSofa No 564 E. J. Swift1:00:49

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PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 429 – LAST WEEK 428 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: "Weather Girl" by E. J. Swift Originally published in Infinity Wars E. J. Swift is the author of the Osiris Project trilogy (Osiris, Cataveiro and Tamaruq), a speculative fiction series set in a world radically altered by climate change. Her ...…

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StarShipSofa No 563 Steve Pantazis Part 21:02:06

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PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 428 – LAST WEEK 424 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: Switch, by Steve Pantazis (Part 2) Originally published in Writers of the Future Steve Pantazis is an award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. He won the prestigious Writers of the Future award in 2015 and has gone on to publish ...…

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StarShipSofa No 562 Steve Pantazis (Part 1)1:31:49

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ATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 423 – LAST WEEK 430 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: Switch, by Steve Pantazis (Part 1) Originally published in Writers of the Future Steve Pantazis is an award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. He won the prestigious Writers of the Future award in 2015 and has gone on to publish a ...…

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StarShipSofa No 561 Adam Rakunas1:12:56

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Patreon support now standing at 430 – last week 431 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "To Plant a Tree" by Adam Rakunas This story is original to StarShipSofa. Adam Rakunas is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated WINDSWEPT and its sequel, LIKE A BOSS. His short fiction has appeared in Futurismic.com, the Magazine ...…

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StarShipSofa No 560 James Sallis27:19

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Main Fiction: "New Teeth" by James Sallis Originally published in Analog. While mostly wandering around the house, Jim sits down from time to time to write books like Drive, from which the Nic Refn film derived; or to translate a novel by Raymond Queneau; to publish five poetry collections and three of musicology; to write the six-volume Lew Gr ...…

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StarShipSofa No 559 Donald Jacob Uitvlugt45:00

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Main Fiction: "The Sands of Rubal-Khali" by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt This story originally appeared in Cirsova #4 (November 2016). Donald Jacob Uitvlugt lives on neither coast of the United States, but mostly in a haunted memory palace of his own design. In addition to previous appearances in StarShipSofa #481 and Far Fetched Fables #176, his shor ...…

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StarShipSofa No 558 D.A. Xiaolin Spires1:04:49

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Main Fiction: "Suvu and Swashbuckling Love" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires This story originally appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine (December 4, 2017). Annie Sheng, aka D.A. Xiaolin Spires, counts stars and sand, residing currently in Hawai'i. You can find her embarking on olfactorial odysseys as she inhales plumeria blossoms, lychee and poi. Her ...…

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StarShipSofa 557 David Whitaker32:06

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Main Fiction: "Choose" by David Whitaker This story is a StarShipSofa original. David Whitaker is originally from the UK, but having ambled around a bit somehow found himself living in New Zealand. He has a degree in Journalism, however ultimately decided that as he prefers making things up it should probably be a resource rather than a profess ...…

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StarShipSofa No 556 Liz Coleman1:08:39

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Patreon support now standing at 433 – last week 434 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Join" by Liz Coleman This story originally appeared at Lightspeed. Liz Coleman has been published in Lightspeed Magazine and Beneath Ceaseless Skies and is a graduate of Viable Paradise. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her ...…

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StarShipSofa No 555 Timothy Mudie40:46

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Patreon support now standing at 433 – last week 434 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Dogface on Ice" by Timothy Mudie This story is original to StarShipSofa. Timothy Mudie has had stories published in Lightspeed, Aliterate, Metaphorosis, and several other magazines and anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, where he works ...…

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StarShip Sofa No 554 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro59:38

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Patreon support now standing at 434 – last week 434 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "e to the h" by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Alvaro's book of interviews with Robert Silverberg, Traveler of Worlds, was a Hugo and Locus award finalist. Alvaro's more than thirty stories and one hundred reviews, essays and interviews have appeared in ...…

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StarShipSofa No 553 John A Karr1:21:15

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Patreon support now standing at 434 – last week 434 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Foot Race" by John A. Karr John Andrew Karr writes of the strange and spectacular. He is the author of the Mars Wars series, with the first novel, DETONATION EVENT, coming in February 2019. He has also written novels and novellas as Joh ...…

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StarShipSofa No 552 Joachim Heijndermans1:19:12

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Patreon support now standing at 434 – last week 431 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Scars to Prove It" by Joachim Heijndermans This story is original to StarShipSofa. Joachim Heijndermans writes, draws, and paints nearly every waking hour. Originally from the Netherlands, he's been all over the world, boring people by ...…

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StarShipSofa No 551 Luke Hindmarsh42:33

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Patreon support now standing at 431 – last week 426 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Out of the Blue, Into the Black" by Luke Hindmarsh Luke E.T. Hindmarsh was born in Oxford, UK before being dragged all over the world by his parents, courtesy of the Royal Air Force. Before starting to write full time, he worked as a Crimin ...…

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StarShipSofa No 550 David Court56:16

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Patreon support now standing at 426 – last week 413 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "ISOL-8" by David Court This story is original to StarShip Sofa. David Court is a short story author and novelist, whose works have appeared in over a dozen venues including Tales to Terrify, Visions from The Void, Fear's Accomplice, and The ...…

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StarShipSofa No 549 Michael Reid55:03

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Patreon support now standing at 413 – last week 418 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Third Man" by Michael Reid This story is a StarShip Sofa original. Michael Reid lives near Toronto, Canada, where he divides his time between studying the stars and writing stories set among them. His work has appeared in Interzone, Esc ...…

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StarShipSofa No 548 Paul R Hardy41:00

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Patreon support now standing at 418 – last week 417 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Breakdown of the Parasite Host Relationship" by Paul R. Hardy Originally published in UFO. Paul R. Hardy is a fungal infection in the shape of the letter 'R' that lives inside the brainstem of an oblivious human meatsack by the name of ...…

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StarShip Sofa No 545 Aaron Emmel1:06:39

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Main Fiction: "A Small Price to Pay" by Aaron Emmel This story originally appeared at Planet Scumm (February 2018) Aaron’s stories have appeared in numerous publications. He is also the author of dozens of essays, an historical fiction graphic novel, and the science fiction gamebook series Midnight Legion. Find him online at aaronemmel.com. Nar ...…

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StarShipSofa No 547 Peter Watts1:18:12

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Patreon support now standing at 417 – last week 414 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Colonel" by Peter Watts Originally published in Tor.com Peter Watts is a former marine biologist, flesh-eating-disease survivor and Undesirable Element (according to the US government) whose novels— despite an unhealthy focus on Space V ...…

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StarShip Sofa No 546 Elana Gomel42:06

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Patreon support now standing at 414 – last week 412 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "In the Moment" by Elana Gomel This story originally appeared at New Horizons (November 1, 2010) Elana Gomel is an Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of six non-fic ...…

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StarShipEchoes 2007 StarShipSofa Originals Harlan Ellison1:01:04

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Support us on Patreon. This week we glimpse an echo way from the past as we listen to two young fellas talk all about Harlan Ellison. So long ago... hope you enjoy!

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StarShipSofa No 544 T Fox Dunham1:21:35

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Patreon support now standing at 412 – last week 418 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Sick Leave" by T. Fox Dunham This story is original to StarShipSofa. T. Fox Dunham lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Allison. He’s a lymphoma survivor, cancer patient, modern bard and historian. His first book, The Street Martyr, was pub ...…

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StarShip Sofa No 543 Matthew Shean1:14:33

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Patreon support now standing at 418 – last week 417 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Sylvia and Larry" by Matthew Shean This story originally appeared in the anthology Lazarus Risen (Bundoran Press, 2016) Matthew has a Ph.D. in developmental biology and spent twenty years chained to a lab bench trying to understand why newt ...…

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StarShipSofa No 542 Ian Creasey46:41

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Patreon support now standing at 417 – last week 416 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Language of Flowers" by Ian Creasey This story originally appeared in Analog (May 2016) Ian Creasey lives in Yorkshire, England. He has published seventy-odd short stories in magazines and anthologies."The Language of Flowers" originall ...…

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StarShipSofa No 541 Christian Riley57:12

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Patreon support now standing at 416 – last week 410 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Singing Tree" by Christian Riley This story is original to StarShipSofa. Chris Riley lives near Sacramento, California, vowing one day to move back to the Pacific Northwest. In the meantime, he teaches special education, writes cool sto ...…

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StarShipSofa No 540 Zach Chapman1:05:08

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Patreon support now standing at 410 – last week 411 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Queenpin of the Wastes" by Zach Chapman Originally appeared in Futuristica Vol. 2. Zach Chapman is a movie critic, podcaster, and author. His short fiction appears in Nature, Tales to Terrify, and Writers of the Future. He also edited the a ...…

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StarShipEchoes 21st April 2013 Interview Jerry Pournelle Greg Benford and Larry Niven1:42:16

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Support this show and it's archives - join Patreon Join me this week as I play a great interview never before played in public of a talk I did with three legends of science fiction: Jerry Pournelle, Greg Benford and Larry Niven way back on the 21st April 2013.

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StarShipSofa No 539 Robert Dawson1:13:44

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Patreon support now standing at 411 – last week 408 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Art of Failure" by Robert Dawson Originally appeared in Compelling SF, March 2016. Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at a Nova Scotian university. He has been writing science fiction for about eight years, and is an alumnus of the Sage ...…

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StarShipSofa No 538 Konstantine Paradias38:13

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Patreon support now standing at 408 – last week 410 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Cram Time" by Konstantine Paradias This story original to StarShipSofa Konstantine Paradias is a writer by choice and a member of the SFWA by compulsion. At the moment, he's published more than 100 stories in a bunch of languages and has wr ...…

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StarShipSofa No 537 Lauren Beukes27:27

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Main Fiction: "Pop Tarts" by Lauren Beukes Originally appeared in Laugh it Off. Lauren Beukes is a South African author and scriptwriter. Her books include the black magic noir, Zoo City, which won the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around, which won the Univer ...…

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StarShip Sofa No 536 Kelly Robson44:06

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Patreon support now standing at 410 – last week 416 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Two-Year Man" by Kelly Robson This story was originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2015 Kelly Robson Kelly Robson’s short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Asimov’s, and multiple anthologies including many ye ...…

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StarShipEchoes August 28 2014 Lisa Tuttle34:57

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Support this show and keep the archives intact. This episode come from the archives of 28th August 2014 with a grand tale by Lisa Tuttle. This story was picked by a ex editor of the show and a good friend Adam Pracht. It was a running joke with Adam that I could never say his surname correctly. One of many that I have butchered over the years. ...…

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StarShipSofa No 535 Maurice Broaddus57:40

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Patreon support now standing at 416 – last week 411 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "The Valkyrie" by Maurice Broaddus Originally published in War Stories A community organizer and teacher, his work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Weird Tales, Apex Magazine, Asimov’s, Cemetery Dance, Black Static, and many more. Some o ...…

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StarShipSofa No 534 Chris Barnham1:23:45

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Patreon support now standing at 411 – last week 407 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "When I Close My Eyes" by Chris Barnham Originally published in Interzone Chris Barnham spent a long time working for the British government, but now just makes stuff up for himself. ‘When I Close My Eyes’ first appeared in Interzone in July ...…

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StarShipSofa No 533 Ian Creasey53:47

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Patreon support now standing at 407 – last week 405 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "Ormonde and Chase" by Ian Creasey This story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction (June 2014) Ian Creasey lives in Yorkshire, England. He has published seventy-odd short stories, several of which have previously been podcasted at ...…

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StarShipSofa No 532 Arkady Martine49:00

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Patreon support now standing at 405 – last week 404. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Main Fiction: "All The Colours You Thought Were Kings" by Arkady Martine Originally published in Shimmer. Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and an apprentice city planner. Un ...…

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StarShipEchoes September 25 2013 Philip Suggars30:44

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Support this podcast on Patreon This week we catch Nick Camm narrating Philip Suggars short story “Automatic Diamante”. And as you can see this episode hit the Sofa airwaves Sept 25th 2013.

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StarShipSofa No 531 Ken Liu57:37

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Patreon support now standing at 404 – last week 406. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "Gossamer" by Ken Liu Originally published in Writers of the Future Ken Liu is an author of speculative fiction, as well as a t ...…

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StarShipSofa No 530 Meredith Morgenstern1:26:43

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Patreon support now standing at 406 – last week 405. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "The Stone Age Gap" by Meredith Morgenstern This story is original to StarShipSofa Meredith Morgenstern is the space princess i ...…

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StarShipSofa No 529 Robert Jeschonek1:11:33

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Patreon support now standing at 405 – last week 403. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "A Little Song, A Little Dance, a Little Apocalypse Down Your Pants" by Robert Jeschonek Originally published in Galaxy's Edge ...…

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StarShipSofa No 528 R. K. Nickel49:13

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Patreon support now standing at 403 – last week 401. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "The Motivation Cure" by R. K. Nickel R.K. Nickel works as screenwriter in Los Angeles. His first feature film, Bear with Us, i ...…

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StarShipSofa No 527 Julie Novakova and G. V. Anderson56:59

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Patreon support now standing at 401 – last week 398. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "Etude for an Extraordinary Mind" by Julie Novakova Originally published in Futuristica Julie Novakova is a Czech author and tr ...…

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StarShipEchoes March 3rd 2010 Mercurio Rivera33:16

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Support us On Patreon This time it's back to episode No 123 and we look at Snatch Me Another by Mercurio Rivera which came out March 3, 2010. So long ago but such a great story. To catch the full show click here!

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StarShipSofa No 526 T. R. Napper1:40:59

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Patreon support now standing at 398 – last week 395. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "A Strange Loop" by T. R. Napper Originally published in Interzone T. R. Napper's short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Inter ...…

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StarShipSofa No 525 Pat MacEwen1:18:31

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Patreon support standing at 395 – last week 388. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "Home Sweet BiOme" by Pat MacEwen Originally published by The Magazine of F&SF Pat MacEwen is an anthropologist. She does independe ...…

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StarShipSofa No 524 Michael Janairo47:39

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Patreon support standing at 388 - last week 377. Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters. Bitcoin address: 1FcqW3GEWFX9tuoyFrn1ySKoeybyc3J4W9 Ethereum address: 0xacC43A99b1eDe0e4a04B43A7A7fa3aA476B87EAA Main Fiction: "The Advanced Ward" by Michael Janairo Originally published in Veterans of the Future Wars. Michael Janairo is a writer living in u ...…

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StarShipSofa No 523 Gary Gibson1:03:31

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Patreon support standing at 377. Help us get to 500 goal. Main Fiction: "Scienceville" by Gary Gibson Originally published in Interzone Gary Gibson is the author of ten novels, including Stealing Light and Final Days. His most recent novels are Extinction Game and its sequel Survival Game, about the adventures of a group of people, all of whom ...…

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