NEW PODCAST LAUNCHED TODAY! Your Remarkable Adventure by StarShipSofa host Tony C Smith Interview: Zhe Xu and the robotic hand Main Fiction: “Citizen of the Galaxy” by Evan Dicken Originally published in Analog – December 2014. By day, Evan Dicken studies old Japanese maps and analyzes medical research data at the Ohio State University. By […]
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StarShipSofa No 431 Martin L. Shoemaker and Mika Mckinnon
Interview: Mika Mckinnon Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis Main Fiction: “Pallbearers” by Martin L. Shoemaker Originally published in Galaxy’s Edge Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side… or maybe it’s the other way around. Programming pays the bills, but a second place story in the […]
StarShipSofa No 430 Arkady Martine
Main Fiction: “Lace Downstairs” by Arkady Martine Originally published in Abyss & Apex Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a Byzantine historian. In both roles she writes about border politics, rhetorical propaganda, and liminal spaces. She was a student at Viable Paradise XVII. Arkady grew up in New […]
StarShipSofa No 429 Gareth L. Powell and Rachel Armstrong
Interview: Rachel Armstrong – Will We Ever Build StarShips Main Fiction: “Distant Galaxies Colliding” by Gareth L. Powell First published in Quantum Muse (2005) GARETH L. POWELL is an award-winning writer from the UK. He is the author of the novels Silversands, The Recollection, Ack-Ack Macaque, Hive Monkey and Macaque Attack. His alternate history thriller, Ack-Ack Macaque, won the […]
StarShipSofa No 428 Stephen Kotowych
Jeremy Szal on Hugos and StarShipSofa Main Fiction: “Saturn in G Minor” by Stephen Kotowych Originally published in Writers of the Future: Volume 23 STEPHEN KOTOWYCH is a Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner (for “Saturn in G Minor”) and past finalist for the Prix Aurora Award, Canada’s top SF prize. His stories have […]