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

Pick the name for the new fantasy podcast from StarShipSofa and the District of Wonders Network: http://poll.fm/4nusd

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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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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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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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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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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Short Fiction 1: “Effect and Cause” by Ken Liu 01:15

Interview: Dr. Linda Spilker – Cassini Project Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 09:20

Ken’s fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, among other places. He has won a Nebula, two Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus Awards. He lives near Boston with his family.

Ken’s debut novel, The Chrysanthemum and the Dandelion, the first in a fantasy series, will be published by Simon & Schuster’s new genre fiction imprint in 2015, along with a collection of short stories.

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

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