StarShipSofa No 236 Will McIntosh

[Tony C. SmithKey Master]

Coming Up

Three Million Downloads for the Sofa!

Fact: Covering the Sofa by Skeet with artist Jan Ditlev Christensen 02:30

Short Fiction: Mindy In the Shadows of Broadway by Steven Silver 05:00

Fact: Everything by Morgan Saletta 24:40

Short Fiction: Godshift by Nancy Fulda 46:00

Main Fiction Incompatible by Will McIntosh 01:03:00

First Chapters: Particle Horizon by Selso Xisto 01:59:00

Narrators: Ray Sizemore, Adam Pracht, Tycelia Santoro

Interzone, Daily Science Fiction

[Tony C. SmithKey Master]

If anyone is interested. Here is this month’s art in full.http://traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Cover_Art_Show_236_.jpg

[expatpaulSubscriber]

That artwork is truly gorgeous. So much so that I shall probably be changing my desktop background in the near future.

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[GonzaloModerator]

Is it a reflected image? The numbers on the spacecraft seem to be reversed. Perhaps it’s from a mirror Universe…

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[expatpaulSubscriber]

In the future we will all write using mirrors

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[LarrySantoroSubscriber]

I wondered about that Gonzalo. But what a great image! Takes me back to my twenties or so…

[LarrySantoroSubscriber]

It’s great to hear Steve’s story “Mindy in the Shadows of Broadway” ably bodied forth by Ray here on today’s show. Steve and I were tablemates at the Gene Wolfe Event a few weeks ago and he mentioned that he had a Damnon Runyon horror-ish tale at the Sofa. Great work, Ray.

[acprachtAuthor]

Simple: It’s an ambulance spacecraft… so that you can tell it’s designation easily when you look in your rearview.

[acprachtAuthor]

“Its” — argh!

[GonzaloModerator]

You know you can edit your own posts if you spot errors early enough? (I think it’s 30 minutes, but Josh should be able to give the real figure)

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[JoshKey Master]

Wow, 3 million downloads, I hope the next 3 million have even more hoverbikes!

Gonzalo, you have 10 minutes to edit a post, so look sharp

Yay Morgan, I loved The Smoke Ring as a kid! I remember picking up the paperback on a trip to Kmart with my Grandpa back when paperbacks were less than $5 and actually fit in your pocket. I devoured all the Niven I could find at the library after that, but it took me a while to track down The Integral Trees and catch up on the first half of the story. I’m still bummed that Niven never wrote a third book, what an awesome trilogy this would have been.

Where are all the corpsicles in SF today?

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[NickPheasSubscriber]

Three cracking Short stories Tony, to say nothing of Morgan’s contribution.
If that’s what a skip week comes out like then you should take them more often.

[MorganSubscriber]

@ Josh- Funny, I only just got around to reading the Smoke Ring a couple of months ago as I was starting to think about these last intallments of “Everything”. Integral Trees on the other hand, I had devoured as a young teenager along with- like you- all the other Niven I could get my hands on. I never did get into the Man-Kzin wars thing- but Ringworld and his works with Jerry Pournelle are some of my favourites.

Morgan

[gavSubscriber]

I thought I would chime in and say that I too thought this artwork is tremendous.

[JoshKey Master]

@Morgan You missed out, I’m sure The Smoke Ring is more entertaining as a kid, but I still want to give them another read or listen someday. Ringworld definitely fueled my disappointment with humanity for our lack of truly epic mega-engineering projects!

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