Poetry: Strip Search by Mike Allen
Flash Fiction: A Hand and Honor by Brenda Cooper 04:00
Fact: Iron Dream Review by Fred Himmbaugh09:45
Main Fiction: Are You There by Jack Skillingstead 26:30
Fact: Proto SF Part 2 By Amy H Sturgis
Narrators: David Munger, Kate Baker, Diane Severson
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Editorial: The Past by Tony C Smith 02:00
Poetry: Conjunctions by Neil Gaiman 06:30
Flash Fiction: A Friend In Need by Richard Johnson 10:10
Fact: Science News by JJ Campanella 18:00
Main Fiction: Shoggoths In Bloom by Elizabeth Bear 35:00
Fact: Mervyn Peake Part 1 by English Assassin
Art: Tom Bevan
Narrators: Mike Allen, Mark Nelson, Paul W. Campbell
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Editorial: Forums by Tony C Smith 00:50
Flash Fiction: The Git by Jay Lake 04:00
Fact: Search Is Too Important To Leave To One Company – Even Google by Cory Doctorow 09:45
Fact: Mervyn Peake Part 1 by English Assassin 15:00
Main Fiction: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diplomat by Matthew Sanborn Smith 26:30
Fact: Gunfight Intro by Jeff Carlson 47:00
New Titles: Edge Of The World, In Ashes Lie, Orphans Triumph 52:00
Narrators: JJ Campanella, Paul Caggige, Ray Sizemore
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Main Fiction first appeared www.bbtmagazine.com
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Editorial: Sofanauts by Tony C Smith 03:50
Poem: Unexpected by Samantha Henderson
Flash Fiction: An Invitation via Email by Mike Allen 24:15
Fact: Film Talk by Rod Barnett 15:00
Main Fiction: Gunfight at by Jeff Carlson 50:00
Narrators: Mike Allen, Annette Bowman, Diane Severson
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Editorial: Sofanauts by Tony C Smith 03:50
New Titles: Zoe’s Tale, Winterstrike, The Burning Skies, Asimovs, Analog, The Stranger
Flash Fiction: Aliens by Rick Norwood
Fact: Fiction Crawler by Matthew Sanborn Smith15:00
Main Fiction: Of A Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs by Adam Troy Castro 50:00
Fact: Look Back at Genre Fiction by Amy H Sturgis,
Narrators: Paul Caggige, Mike Boris,
Of A Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs first published in Keith DeCandido’s anthology, IMAGININGS
Links to Fiction Crawler:
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner
Summer in Paris, Light From the Sky by Ken Scholes
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
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Aural Delights No 86 Lavie Tidhar
Poetry: E7 by Curtis Hilgenberg
Fact Article: Extreme Geek by Cory Doctorow
Main Fiction: Transylvanian Mission by Lavie Tidhar
Fact Article: Survivors by The English Assassin
Narrators: Julie Davis
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Aural Delights No 85 Jeremiah Tolbert
Editorial: The Sofanauts by Tony C Smith 02:10
Fact: Comic Book Outsiders 03:12
Main Fiction: Culture Archivist by Jeremiah Tolbert 11:22
Fact: Science News by JJ Campanella 54:00
Narrators: Ray Sizemore
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Aural Delights No 84 David D. Levine
Editorial: The Sofanauts by Tony C Smith 00:10
Intro to Story: Lawrence Santoro 07:30
Flash Fiction: Then, Just a Dream by Lawerence Santoro
New Titles: Book 3 Astropolis, Many Contain Traces of Magic, The Spy Who Haunted Me 28:00
Main Fiction: Titanium Mike Saves the Day by David D. Levine 31:22
Fact: When Harry Met Faerie: The Tolkien Solution to the Rowling Problem by Amy H Sturgis 01:10:00
Narrators: Julie Davis, Lawrence Santoro
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Aural Delights No 83 Tobias Buckell & Jason Sanford
Poem: Explanation by Curtis Hilgenberg 04:01
Fiction: Aerophilia by Tobias Buckell 06:45
Music: They Grow Up So Fast by Norm Sherman 43:30
Fact: Film Talk by Rod Barnett 50:00
Main Fiction: When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees by Jason Sanford 59:00
New Titles: Iron Angel, Twisted Metal, Shadow Of The Scorpion 01:46:00
Narrators: Dunesteef Rick Stringer Julie Davis
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When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees first published in Interzone 219
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Aural Delights No 82 Michael Bishop
Editorial: Michael Bishop by Tony C Smith
Poetry: Jamie’s Hair by Michael Bishop 02:00
Intro to Main Fiction: Michael Bishop
Main Fiction: Vinegar Peace by Michael Bishop 07:41
Sofa Art Cover: Ed Bellisimo
Narrators: Diane Severson, Dale Manley
Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage was been published in the July 2008 issue of Asimov’
StarShipSofa narrates Vinegar Peace, a SF story wrote by Michael Bishop for his son Jamie Bishop who died two years ago at the Virginia Tech shooting.
Michael Bishop says:
I wrote “Vinegar Peace” — in August of 2007 — because I had to. Our 35-year-old son, Jamie, died on the morning of April 16, 2007, as one of thirty-two victims of a disturbed shooter on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Jamie, an accomplished digital artist who did lovely covers for four or five of my books, was holding forth in Room 2007 of Norris Hall in his German class more than two hours after his eventual murderer had slain two students in a dormitory on another part of campus. The administration failed to issue a warning — a warning that might well have saved many lives — in a timely fashion. However, some of its members secured their own offices and notified their own family members of this initial event; and so the worst school shooting in the history of the United States claimed our son, four other faculty members (including a man, Dr Librescu, who had survived the Holocaust and who held a table against his classroom door until all own students could escape), four of Jamie’s students, and twenty-one other young people in Norris Hall, not to mention the first two victims in West Ambler-Johnston dorm. Another twenty-eight students were wounded by bullets or injured leaping from upper-story windows. Some of these young people will live with their injuries the rest of their lives.
All of the administrators, with the exception of a woman who later died of a stroke or a heart attack (a death that my wife and I can’t help but attribute partially to the stress of living with the mistakes of the President and the other Policy Group members), remain in their positions. So much for accountability, and so much for justice.
In any case, “Vinegar Peace” grew from this disaster and from a grief that I can’t imagine ever laying totally aside. Jeri and I mourn Jamie’s loss every day in some private way, and we think continually of all the other parents and loved ones of the slain and injured who will carry a similar burden with them until they die. We think, too, of the parents and loved ones of the dead and wounded from the United States’s optional war in Iraq, who long for their dead and who pray for their injured with an intensity not a whit different from our own. How ironic that our son died on American soil. How sad the wasted potential and disfigured lives resulting from violence everywhere. And forgive me the inadequacy of these remarks. Clearly, I wrote a story because I could not address either my outrage or my grief in any other way.
Mike Bishop
StarShipSofa is very honoured and humbled to be allowed to bring this story to a wider audience. I know I speak for the SF community when I say our hearts and prayers go out to Mike and Jeri and all the families who have to live with this grief every day.
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Aural Delights No 81 Marc Laidlaw
Editorial: J G Ballard Remembered by Tony C Smith 03:50
Poetry: Black Holes Holed Their Breath by Mike Allen 06:50
Flash Fiction: Different by Julio Flávio Meirelles Marchini 09:10
Fact: Book Review by The English Assassin 15:00
Short Fiction: Not Fade Away by Spider Robinson 24:15
Fact: Graphic Novels Review by Stephen Aryan 43:27
Main Fiction: Flight Risk by Marc Laidlaw 50:00
New Titles: The Space Opera Collection 01:28:00
Promo: www.dunesteef.com 01:57
Narrators: Kate Baker Annette Bowman The Dunesteef Team
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Aural Delights No 80 James Lovegrove
Editorial: Sofanauts by Tony C Smith 01:50
Poetry: Epochs In Exile by Mike Allen & Charles Saplak 03:34
Fact: Science News by Jim Campanella15:00
Main Fiction: Wings by James Lovegrove 36:15
Fact: Fiction Crawler by Matthew Sanborn Smith 01:14:00
Narrators: Nicola Seaton-Clark Kate Baker
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Links to Fiction Crawler:
Colonists by Barry Napier
Homecoming by Jessica Melusine
Prairie Star by Cat Rambo
They Called Her Larry by Steve Duffy
Thaumatrope
Outshine
Nanoism
Six Word Stories
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Aural Delights No 79 Karen Joy Fowler
Editorial: The Sofanauts: The New Show… coming soon! by Tony C Smith 02:50
Poetry: Galaxy In A Matchbox by G O Clark 07:30
Fact: Hyperion II by Fred Himebaugh 08:30
Main Fiction: Standing Room Only by Karen Joy Fowler 22:35
Fact: The Machine Stops by Amy H Sturgis 54:00
New Titles: Madness Of Angels, Escape From Hell, Adamantine Palace, Xenopath 01:11:00
Narrators: Julie Davis, Kate Baker
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StarShipSofa delivers science fiction short stories from today best authors. This audio science fiction magazine podcast has played the very best of today’s sf, fantasy and horror. Writers from Michael Moorcock, Joe Haldeman to Bruce Sterling and Ted Chiang have all been narrated and played on this podcast.
This week StarShipSofa podcasts all Nebula Short Story nominees for 2008
StarShipSofa has, in one day, done what no other SF podcast has done before. In another unprecedented move, StarShipSofa has put out all seven Nebula Short Story 2008 nominees, all available as free audio podcasts for your listening pleasure. Tony, who helms the podcast, says, “The Nebula’s are a very special event in the SF world and I wanted the StarShipSofa to mark this occasion by doing something unique for this year’s awards. “I wanted to put out all the stories nominated in one day so people can, straight away, have them downloaded back to back… sitting on their iPod and, for the next few hours, submerge themselves in SF stories of the very best calibre. All for free. “Things are changing rapidly in this medium and this is one example of StarShipSofa pushing the boundaries of normal podcasting in both terms of quality and accessibility. “It’s what the StarShipSofa was built for.”
Link to the Nebula Awards site
Below are the links to all seven stories direct via iTunes. If you don’t use iTunes… check out each individual postings at StarShipSofa.
Super-fast iTunes download links:
Nebula Nominee Kij Johnson -26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
Nebula Nominee Ruth Nestvold – Mars: A Traveler’s Guide
Nebula Nominee Mike Allen -The Button Bin
Nebular Nominee Jeffery Ford – The Dreaming Wind
Nebula Nominee Nina Kiriki Hoffman – Trophy Wives
Aural Delights No 78 Nebula Nominee Gwyneth Jones
Tomb Wife
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First Published: F&SF Aug07
Narration: Mark Douglas Nelson
Link to the Nebula Awards site
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