Coming Up…

YES! Get me on the Submission Desk

Interview: Dan Vergano – NASA the Politics of Mars

Fact: Science News by J J Campanella

Main Fiction: “Karma Among the Cloud Kings” by Brian Trent.

Originally published in Analog magazine.

Brian Trent is a 2013 winner in the Writers of the Future contest for his story “War Hero”  and his work has appeared in ANALOG, Daily Science Fiction, Apex (winning the 2013 Story of the Year Reader’s Poll), Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, COSMOS, Strange Horizons, Galaxy’s Edge, Crossed Genres, The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, and much more. He lives in Connecticut, where he works...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Support District of Wonders on Patreon

StarShipSofa: Call for Assistant and Slush Reader

Main Fiction: “Beneath the Willow Branches, Beyond the Reach of Time”, by Caroline M. Yoachim

Originally appeared in Interzone

Caroline M. Yoachim lives in Seattle and loves cold cloudy weather.  She is the author of dozens of short stories, appearing in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed.  Her debut short story collection, SEVEN WONDERS OF A ONCE AND FUTURE WORLD & OTHER STORIES, is...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Support Tales To Terrify on Patreon

StarShipSofa: Call for Assistant and Slush Reader

Main Fiction: “The Chronology Protection Case” by Paul Levinson

Originally published in Analog, reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF.

Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012), have been translated into ten languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of Locus...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Interview: Prof Christopher Riley and Our Message for Voyager – Facebook Page

Main Fiction: “The Merger” by Sunil Patel

Originally appeared in The Book Smugglers 

Sunil Patel is a Bay Area fiction writer and playwright who has written about everything from ghostly cows to talking beer. His plays have been performed at San Francisco Theater Pub and San Francisco Olympians Festival, and his fiction has appeared in Saturday Night Reader, Fireside Magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Flash Fiction Online, and The Book...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Ana Matronic – Robot Universe

Short Fiction: “Summer Home” by Sue Burke

Originally appeared in Asimov’s.

Sue Burke was born Wisconsin and lived briefly in Texas before moving to Madrid, Spain, in 1999. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, and she’s worked for decades as a journalist and editor. She’s also a certified Spanish-to-English translator, and her recent translations include a Angélica Gorodischer’s novel “Prodigies” published by Small Beer press, and a short story in the most recent Triangulations anthology. She attended Clarion East, and she’s a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the American Translators Association, and the Spanish Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Association. For more about her and her...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up:

Interview: Ben Stein

Main Fiction: “The End of the War” by Django Wexler

Originally published in Asimov’s.

Django Wexler is the author of the epic fantasy series The Shadow Campaigns from Ace and Roc books. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research.  Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books.  When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts.

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 (a...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Interview: Serah Eley

Main Fiction: “Between Screens” by Zach Chapman

Originally published in Writers of the Future Vol. 31

Zach Chapman grew up on a ranch just north of San Antonio, Texas where he could see the cows grazing in the pasture from his bedroom window. In 2011 he graduated from the University of the Incarnate Word with a degree in English, where he won the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) English Award for creative writing. He currently lives in Austin with his Librarian wife Taylor, a cat, a rabbit and a lazy-eyed rescue dog names Dingo. Follow his future publication announcements on twitter: @chappyzach

Narrated by Jonathan Sharp

I was born in southern New Mexico in the nexus between Area 51, Trinity Site, and Spaceport America. I...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Flash Fiction: The Binary String by Peter Taylor

Interview: Becky Chambers author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Flash Fiction: “Ravages of Time” by Alex Shvartsman

Originally published in Nature magazine.

Narrator: Mark Nelson

After getting a BA in Radio & Television, I spent the next 28 years in Human Resources – the graveyard of useless degrees. After being laid-off by my last tech company after it was bought-out by a competitor and shut down, I decided to return to my useless roots, and have been narrating audiobooks since 2006.  My goal is to become the world’s oldest hikikomori.

Main Fiction: “The Wreck of Mars Adventure” by David D Levine

Originally published in Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Fact: Science News by Jim Campanella

Interview with author and editor Alex Shvartsman, with Jeremy Szal

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. Over 80 of his short stories have appeared in Nature, InterGalactic Medicine Show, Galaxy’s Edge, Daily SF, and other venues. He’s the winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for short fiction. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories, and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were both published in 2015.

Alex edits Unidentified Funny Objects, the annual anthology series of humorous SF/F. He has edited several other anthologies as well. He’s currently at work on his first novel which, at current pace, will be finished sometime around 2020. His website is Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming Up…

Main Fiction: “Redemption Awaits” by Mike Brooks

Originally published in Grimdark Magazine Issue #4

Mike Brooks was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and moved to Nottingham when he was 18 to go to university. He’s stayed there ever since, and now lives with his wife, two cats, two snakes and a collection of tropical fish. He is the author of the Keiko novels, sci-fi adventures that follow the escapades of those crewing the spaceship of the same name: DARK RUN was released on June 4th, 2015, and DARK SKY is set to follow on Nov 5th.

When not writing he works for a homelessness charity, plays guitar and sings in a punk band, watches football (soccer), MMA and nature/science...

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.