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Trumix.com listings available of StarShipSofa Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 40 Lawrence Santoro mp3 Aural Delights No 40 lawrence SantoroPoetry: Judy Resnick by Laurel Winter 03:45Flash Fiction: When The Whistle Blows by Daniel Schwartz 05:35Fact: Fiction Crawler No1 Matthew Sanborn Smith 14:10Main Fiction Intro: Lawrence Santoro 24:27Main Fiction: So Many Tiny Mouths by Lawrence Santoro 33:50Narrators:  MCL, Lawrence Santoro Diane Severson, Shout Outs: Mark FrauenfelderAdvertisement: This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com.  Time adds in show 00:00 and 12:10. Download a f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 98 J G Ballard mp3 This week the StarShipSofa returns to her old hunting ground of hitting SF authors for an in depth look into their lives and books. This week your host Tony C Smith hits all that is G J Ballard. So, buckle down and enjoy the ride. Blast Off! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 39 Elizabeth Bear mp3 Aural Delights No 39 Elizabeth BearPoetry: For Spacers Snarled by Bruce Boston 03:20Flash Fiction: Barriers by G David Nordley  04:40Fact: Show Not Tell Terry Edge 22:19Main Fiction: Tideline by Elizabeth Bear  40:00Narrators:  MCL, Diane Severson, Julie Davis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa The Engine Room No 3 mp3 This week Tony reveals who he's hit in the SF world for stories. Count down begins for Grant and the new arrival. It all goes to make a make a blast of a show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 38 Kage Baker mp3   Aural Delights No 38 Kage Baker Poetry: Werewolf Poet Laureate by Greg Beatty 01:20 Flash Fiction: Billy And The Wizard by Terry Bisson  04:00 Main Fiction: Hellfire At The Twilight Club by Kage Baker  35:51 Fact: Science News Jim Campanella 17:38 Narrators:  Gareth Stack, Julie Davis, MCL Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSanatorium No 3 Flip Flops mp3 Another installment from the host of StarShipSofa Tony C Smith's life. Oh... not a pretty sight. Flip flops at his age! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 37 Alastair Reynolds mp3   Aural Delights No 37 Alastair Reynolds Poetry: Making Robot Poets  by Greg Beatty 02:01 Flash Fiction: What’s Expected Of Us by Ted Chiang  04:22 Fact:  SF Investigators Amy H Sturgis 13:50 Main Fiction: The Real Story by Alastair Reynolds  40:00 On The Sofa With… Alastair Reynolds 29:22 Narrators:  Tee Morris, Julie Davis, Advertisement: This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a free audiobook of your choice at audiblepodc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa The Engine Room No 2 mp3 Tony does the rounds on the StarShipSofa and takes a visit to Grant in the Engine Room. Find out how the ship is running and who they have in their sights! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 36 Paul Di Filippo mp3   Poetry: Bottles by Greg Betty 01:535 Flash Fiction: Moon Over Baton Rouge by Atalanta Pendragonne  04:13 Article:  Jim Sawgrass Matthew Sanborn Smith 11:30 Main Fiction: Bad Beliefs by Paul Di Filippo 23:27 On The Sofa With Jeff Carlson  44:35 Narrators: Grant Stone, Julie Davis, Diane Severson Advertisement: This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a free audiobook of your choice at audiblepodcast.com/sofa 00:00, 10:17 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSanatorium No 2 This is the second outing that is part of the StarShipSanatorium shows. These will be on a separate feed and eventually released once a week and only available for people signed up to the Sanatorium feed. Join Tony, host of the StarShipSofa as he takes his dogs out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Round No 97 Table Kevin J Anderson Jeff Carlson mp3 Tony and Fred talk about the lastest stories from StarShipSofa's Aural Delights including Kevin J Anderson's Newts and Jeff Carlson's Frozon Sky Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 35 Jeff Carlson Aural Delights No 35 Jeff CarlsonPoetry: Robot Dog by Bruce Boston 01:25Flash Fiction: In The Olden Days by Spider Robinson 04:00Main Fiction: Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson 16:37Narrators:  Amy H Sturgis, Julie Davis,   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa The Engine Room No 1 mp3 The first show from StarShipSofa's Engine Room looking at how the show gets put together. JoinTony as he takes a tour down into the Ship's lower decks and meets Grant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aural Delights No 34 Kevin J Anderson mp3  Aural Delights No 34 Kevin J AndersonPoetry: No Ruined Luna City by Greg Beatty 02:28Flash Fiction: The Switch by Tony C Smith 04:00Fact: Science News Jim Campanella 17:00Main Fiction: Newts by Kevin J Anderson 40:40Narrators:  Jim Campanella,  Julie Davis, Mur LaffertyAdvertisement: This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a free audiobook of your choice at audiblepodcast.com/sofa 00:00, 15:43Art for cover of Jumping Into Possibilities by Skeet  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jumping Into Possibilities by Tony C Smith Collection of short stories by the host of StarShipSofa, Tony C Smith.Availabile in the Sofa shop NOW!Artwork by Skeet1. Caitlin's Foal2. A Dying Obsession3. The Manidoo4. You Murderer5. Joyride6. The Switch7. A Chocolate Coated Life8. The Daffodil Train9. Under Sextascy Wood Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 96 Round Table John Varley Robert Reed mp3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aural Delights No 33 Robert Reed mp3   Aural Delights No 33 Robert Reed Poetry: Goodbye Is Meaningless by Mark Rich 00:59 Flash Fiction: A Modest Proposal by Vonda N McIntyre  02:30 Fact: Point of View Terry Edge 11:25 Main Fiction: Roxie by Robert Reed 26:54 Narrators:  Jim Campanella, Amy H Sturgis, Diane Severson Advertisement: This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a free audiobook of your choice at audiblepodcast.com/sofa 00:00, 10:00, 01:23:00   More links of interest: Fiction ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSanatorium No1 mp3 Crash land with the first StarShipSanatorium and the life and times of your Sofanaught. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aural Delights No 32 John Varley mp3 Aural Delights No 32 John Varley Poetry: Goodbye Is Meaningless by Laurel Winter 01:03 Flash Fiction: The Candidate by Jack McDevitt  02:35 Fact: Captain Power Amy H Sturgis 10:27 Main Fiction: The Bagatelle by John Varley 13:05 Narrators:  Diane Severson, Grant Stone, Fred Himebaugh Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 95 Round Table Mary Rosenblum mp3   StarShipSofa blasts off with its first Round Table discussion with host Tony C Smith, Fred Himebaugh, Grant Stone and Diane Severson. So join Tony and friends as they talk about last week's Aural Delights No 31. Links from the show: Chasing the Bard by fellow kiwi Philippa Ballantine:   http://www.chasingthebard.com/ TED Talks: http://www.ted.com/ Radio Clash: http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/ BBC In Our Time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/   &nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aural Delights No 31 Mary Rosenblum mp3 Aural Delights No 31 Mary Rosenblum Poetry: Interstellar Tract by Bruce Boston 01:03 Flash Fiction: Sunday Dinner by Matthew Sandborn Smith 05:36 Main Fiction: The Rainmaker by Mary Rosenblum 13:05 Narrators:  Paul Caggegi Julie Davis Dale Manley Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aural Delights No 30 Michael Moorcock mp3 Aural Delights No 30 Michael Moorcock Poetry: How To Make Love To A Shark by Laurel Winter 01:31 Flash Fiction: Remorse by Adam Roberts 02:45 Main Fiction: The Spencer Inheritance by Michael Moorcock 17:38 Narrators: Diane Severson, Kenny Park, Gareth Stack Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Interviews Michael Moorcock mp3     In November 2007 StarShipSofa blasted off and flew to Paris to interview then to be crowned Science Fiction Grand Master, Michael Moorcock.  Along with StarShipSofa, Cage TV came for the ride and provided all equipment, camera man and sound man. Over a weekend StarShipSofa delved into all manner of things with this legend… from Hawkwind and the infamous house at Ladbroke Rd to drugs, rock & roll, and the prospect of leaving Texas to live in Paris. Oh… a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aural Delights No 29 Allen Steel Aural Delights No 29 Allen Steele Poetry: Time Travel Verb Tenses by Laurel Winter 02:11 Flash Fiction: Downtown by John Kessel 03:41 Fact: Science News by Jim Campanella 09:26 Main Fiction: The Last Science Fiction Writer by Allen Steele11:22 Narrators: Diane Severson, Grant Stone and Mark Nelson Advertisement: This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a free audiobook of your choice at audiblepodcast.com/sofa 00:00 08:00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 93 Second Editorial mp3 Welcome to the StarShipSofa's second Editorial. If you want to know how the Sofa runs and how your Sofanaught runs this ship. Then join Tony for everything StarShipSofa. Warning: liberal dose of profanity and toilet humor. You have been warned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff VanderMeer Secret Life mp3 Main Fiction Secret Life 32:10 by Jeff VanderMeer A vision of the building from on high: five glittering floors surrounded by a dull concrete parking lot. To the west lay a forest. To the east, the glint of a shopping mall, substantial as a mirage. To the north, highways and fast food restaurants. To the south, a perpetual gloom through which could be seen only more shadow. Article: Fouque by Amy Sturgis 11:11 Flash Fiction: Toujours Voir by David Brin 29:00 Poetry: Confessions Of A Bod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 92 A E van Vogt Part 2 mp3 The Sofa now moves on to part two of the A E Van Vogt special. Join Tony as he delves deeper still into everything Van Vogt! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Hughes Passion Ploy mp3 Main Fiction Passion Ploy 12:20 by Matthew Hughes "What exactly is it?" Luff Imbry said.  He walked around the object that occupied the center of the small table in the secluded rear room of the tavern known as Bolly's Snug, viewing it from several angles and blinking at the way it caught the light. Flash Fiction: Fresco by Alastair Reynolds 05:15 Poetry:  Spacer Compass by Bruce Boston 01:05:00 They Arrived by Mark Rich   02:14 Narrators: Diane Severson, Ji ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 91 A E van Vogt Part 1 mp3 StarShipSofa has longed to hit the orbit of this great writer and now it’s with great pleasure that Tony pilots the Sofa towards A E van Vogt, with not one but two shows dedicated to all things Vogt. This writer is one of the greats from the camp of John W Campbell’s stable of writers that brought about the Golden Age of Science Fiction. A truly remarkable time in SF literature.   Alexei Panshin              ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Easy As Pie Rudy Rucker mp3 Main Fiction Easy As Pie by Rudy Rucker. In a far corner of a distant galaxy spins planet X, a place quite similar to our wonderful Earth.  Like Earth, X is in a planetary system with a chaoticity of six parts per million and, like Earth, X orbits its sun in the third resonance band of its planetary system’s attractor. Reality, Remastered:  Cognitive Entanglement by Peter Watts poetry: Godlet by Laurel Winter Narrators: Mark Nelson, Diane Severson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 90 StarShipSofa Back Shows mp3 Well, today it’s a self indulgent show… all about the StarShipSofa back shows. Yes…… the shop is now open for the back shows.  The Sofa now has a system in place that deletes from the feed all back shows older then the tenth show. We’ll always be free…. but after the tenth show, the eleventh show falls off the radar and will only be available for Pay Per Download from the shop. This does not affect the Aural Delights shows, they will ALWAYS BE F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 89 John Scalzi mp3 This week Tony pilots the StarShipSofa towards one of the new and shining stars of the SF movement, John Scalzi, labeled one of the New Comprehensibles in his writing style. This writer wrote the wonderful romp and Hugo nominated SF novel, Old Man's War - a favorite of Tony's. Join the Sofanaught captain as he plunges the StarShipSofa into all things Scalzi. Blast Off Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terry Bisson mp3 Main Fiction Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson Winner of: •           1991 Hugo Award for Best Short Story •           1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story •           1991 Asimov's Reader's Award •           1991 The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award •  & ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 88 Ted Chiang mp3 Today the Sofa is privileged to bring you a interview with one of the very best SF short story writer's working today, Ted Chiang. Join Tony as he interviews this fascinating writer and finds all out about Ted Chiang, from his Clarion days to a future story.  Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Aylett Gigantic mp3 Gigantic by Steve Aylett Strange aircraft arrived with the sky that morning, moving blood-slow. And Professor Skychum was forced from the limelight at the very instant his ranted warnings became most poignant. ‘They’re already here Narration for Gigantic by Gareth Stack Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Aylett Gigantic mp3 Gigantic by Steve Aylett Strange aircraft arrived with the sky that morning, moving blood-slow. And Professor Skychum was forced from the limelight at the very instant his ranted warnings became most poignant. ‘They’re already here Narration for Gigantic by Gareth Stack Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 87 Stephen Baxter mp3 This week its the turn of British SF writer Stephen Baxter. Join Tony on this trip into the unknown for all things Baxterish. Calling at his books Voyage, Timeships  and Evolution and also checking in to see about his attempt to join Mir as a guest cosmonaut. Blast Off! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 87 Stephen Baxter mp3 This week its the turn of British SF writer Stephen Baxter. Join Tony on this trip into the unknown for all things Baxterish. Calling at his books Voyage, Timeships  and Evolution and also checking in to see about his attempt to join Mir as a guest cosmonaut. Blast Off! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kage Baker Likely Lad mp3 Likely Lad by Kage Baker “Alec’s growing up into such a nice boy,” said Mrs. Lewin fondly, pouring out a cup of herbal tea. “So thoughtful. Do you know, he’s doing all his own laundry now? I never have to remind him at all.”                 Lewin grunted acknowledgement, absorbed in his cricket match. It was only a holo of a game played a century earlier—competitive sports h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Editorial mp3 This week Tony starts a new aspect of the show - The Editorial. Following in the footsteps of some of the great SF magazine editorials from the likes of John W Campbell, Ben Bova and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, join Tony for his once a month editorial as he plots the Sofa's route for world globalisation. Solar Flare John Kessel Black Phoenix Alchemy Lad Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spider Robinson Distraction mp3   Distraction by Spider Robinson   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 85 Alan Moore Watchman V For Vendetta mp3 Today the StarShipSofa travels along to Alan Moore and his comics. Join Tony as he himself learns all about Alan Moore and his life. Including Hugo winning comic Watchman. Get ready, Blast Off Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gywneth Jones La Cenerntola mp3 La Cenerentola by Gywneth Jones Act I: The Scholar Gypsies My first thought, when I saw the sisters, was that they were simply too perfect. They had to be identical twins: about sixteen years old: tall but not too tall, sun-kissed golden skin; rounded and slender limbs, long golden hair, blue eyes. They were walking in step, arm in arm, whispering together; identical even in their graceful movements. One pushed back her hair, the other brushed an insect from her immaculate white shorts. Ea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 84 Enders Games mp3 This week StarShipSofa looks towards the novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Is this one of the greatest SF novels ever written or is it a over hyped load of old tosh? Spoiler warnings... Tony C Smith will tell all about this novel. You have been warned. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Haldeman Graves  Graves Winner of the Nebula for Best Short Story 1993 Winner of the World Fantasy Award 1993 by Joe Haldeman I have this persistent sleep disorder that makes life difficult for me, but still I want to keep it. Boy, do I want to keep it. It goes back twenty years, to Vietnam. To Graves. Dead bodies turn from bad to worse real fast in the jungle. You've got a few hours before rigor mortis makes them hard to handle, hard to stuff into a bag. By that time, they start to turn greenish, i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 83 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Today the StarShipSofa blasts off into the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Join Tony as he guides the Sofa across all the years of the magazines long life, from it's initial concept with editors Anthony Boucher and J Francis McComas, to present editor and publisher Gordon Van Gelder. Get ready... Blast Off! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Bear And The Deep Blue Sea And the Deep Blue Sea By Elizabeth Bear First published in SCIFICTION, May 2005 The end of the world had come and gone. It turned out not to matter much in the long run. The mail still had to get through. Harrie signed yesterday's paperwork, checked the dates against the calendar, contemplated her signature for a moment, and capped her pen. She weighed the metal barrel in her hand and met Dispatch's faded eyes. "What's special about this trip?" Elizabeth Bear Narrated by Amy H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 82 Forrest J Ackerman This week Tony turns the StarShipSofa towards one of the greatest fans of SF... in fact the man who invented the very term... SCI FI. So get ready to delve into the world of Forrest J Ackerman. And... if that wasn't enough... Fred joins Tony to sum up the winner of the BSFA Best Short Story winner 2007. Get Ready. Blast Off! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff VanderMeer Shark God Versus Octopus God Shark God Versus Octopus God by Jeff VanderMeer A long time ago, when Dakuwaqa the Shark God was young and not so wise, he made all who lived in or near the sea fear him. They feared him for his knives that posed as teeth. They feared him for his relentlessness. They feared him for his speed. They feared him because the bloodlust was buried so deep in him that he loved to fight. Dakuwaqa could take many shapes, but he enjoyed the shape of shark the best in those early days. It fit him. It ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 81 BSFA Who Is The Winner?   Join Tony and Fred for a little get together and see if they can pick the winner from the 5 shortlisted stories that are up for the BSFA Best Short Story 2007. Blast Off Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BSFA Best Short Story 2007 The Sledge Makers Daughter Alastair Reynolds The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter by Alastair Reynolds Shortlisted for the BSFA Award Best Short Story 2007 She stopped in sight of Twenty Arch Bridge, laying down her bags to rest her hands from the weight of two hogs’ heads and forty pence worth of beeswax candles. While she paused, Kathrin adjusted the drawstring on her hat, tilting the brim to shade her forehead from the sun. Though the air was still cool, there was a fierce new quality to the light that brought out her freckles. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BSFA Best Short Story Nominee 2007 The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang     The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang Shortlisted for the BSFA Award Best Short Story 2007 O MIGHTY CALIPH AND Commander of the Faithful, I am humbled to be in the splendor of your presence; a man can hope for no greater blessing as long as he lives. The story I have to tell is truly a strange one, and were the entirety to be tattooed at the corner of one's eye, the marvel of its presentation would not exceed that of the events recounted, for it is a warning t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BSFA Best Short Story Nominee 2007 The Gift Of Joy by Ian Whates    The Gift Of Joy by Ian Whates Shortlisted for the BSFA Award Best Short Story 2007 Conrad sauntered into Lacey’s bar and took his accustomed place on one of the high stools, which settled with a disconcerting lurch.  He wriggled in an effort to find a more stable base, causing the stool’s feet to scrape against the mock-wood beneath with teeth-jarring effect.  Roach glanced up to favour him with a sour look that bisected a smile and a grimace – his ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BSFA Best Short Story 2007 Lighting Out Ken MacLeod    Lighting Out by Ken MacLeod Shortlisted for the BSFA Award Best Short Story 2007 Mother had got into the walls again. Constance Mukgatle kept an eye on her while scrabbling at the back of her desk drawer for the Norton. Her fingers closed around the grip and the trigger. She withdrew the piece slowly, nudging the drawer farther open with the heel of her hand. Then she whipped out the bell-muzzled device and levelled it at the face that had sketched itself in ripples in the p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BSFA Best Short Story Nominee 2007 Terminal by Chaz Brenchley   Terminal by Chaz Brenchley Shortlisted for the BSFA Award Best Short Story 2007 unspeakable journeys into and out of the light   He stood on the Tower of Souls, and watched her fly. Say it another way, he stood on the high-stacked bodies of his Upshot kind, but that was nothing: filing. Bureaucracy. Paranoia. It was the locals, the natives, the dirigibles - she called them dirigistes, but that was ironic - who had built and named this height, who gave a value to these disca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Kessel Buffalo Buffalo by John Kessel Hugo and Nebula nominee 1992 Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Locus poll in 1992 In April of 1934 H.G. Wells traveled to the United States, where he visited Washington, D.C. and met with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Wells, 68 years old, hoped the New Deal might herald a revolutionary change in the U.S. economy, a step forward in an "Open Conspiracy" of rational thinkers that would culminate in a world socialist state.&nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 80 Connie Willis   This week the StarShipSofa smacks into on of the brightest stars in SF and that is Connie Willis. Join Tony C Smith on his own personal voyage of discovery into all things Connie Willis. And... listen as Tony  announces something really special for the StarShipSofa. Blast Off. BSFA BSFA Short Story 2007 Shortlist NewCon Press disLocations Connie Willis short stories online Fire Watch Inside Job Just Like The Ones We Used To Know     Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laurel Winter Infinity Syrup Infinity Syrup by Laurel Winter First published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1992 Fay was Zen shopping, something she had learned when she worked swing shift in card assembly at IBM.  The effort of plugging six components into the right holes on four hundred cards had always left her too tired to think. Too tired to think, but too wired to sleep. So she usually stopped at a twenty four hour grocery on her way home and let her hands do the shopping for her. Hands re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 79 M John Harrison It is with great pleasure that the StarShipSofa points her bows towards M John Harrison. Join Tony C Smith as he explores the worlds and times of M John Harrison in the science fiction podcast to beat all other SF podcast! Get Ready. Blast Off! M John Harrison web site Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Olaf Stapledon Letters To The Future   Letters To The Future by Olaf Stapledon To my Great Grandson in early manhood. Sir, If ever you come upon this letter, forgive its preglacial dialect, and have patience to spell out its meaning. How gladly would I address you in whatever speech lives in your ears! The thoughts which follow must, I know, reach you only as dead and fragile specimens; but today they live. They flit among us dazzlingly and elusively, and we fight about them; for some of us fear them as the plague and wou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 78 John Sladek The main job of the science fiction podcast StarShipSofa is to unearth SF writers that maybe have slipped the net of popularity but whose work still shines like the brightest of stars. John Sladek is one of these writers. Join Tony C Smith for the life and times of this great SF writer. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harry Harrison By The Falls By The Falls by Harry Harrison Nebula nominee 1970 It was the rich damp grass, slippery as soap, covering the path, that caused .Carter to keep slipping and falling, not the steepness of the hill. The front of his raincoat was wet and his knees were muddy long before be reached the summit. And with each step forward and upward the continuous roar of sound grew louder. He was hot and tired by the time he reached the top of the ridge--yet he instantly forgot his discomfort as he looked out a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 77 Olaf Stapledon   Today StarShipSofa hits science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, a writer who didn't realize just how inventive and original his ideas were. Join Tony C Smith on this voyage of discovery into the works of this great SF writer. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pat Murphy Going Through The Changes Going Through The Changes by Pat Murphy THE WIND tugged at Gretchen's raincoat as she stepped out of the restaurant. Halfway down the block, a sudden gust neatly flipped her umbrella inside out and drenched her with a blast of cold rain. She ran for the nearest shelter - a tattered awning over a door sandwiched between a pawnshop and a used-clothes store.   Pat Murphy website Summer – Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 76 Time Travel The StarShipSofa powers her engines and heads into time... who knows where she'll land? Join Tony C Smith as he travels in time with this fantastic SF podcast. If it's science fiction... then all aboard. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce Sterling We See Things Differently We See Things Differently by Bruce Sterling This was the jahiliyah -- the land of ignorance. This was America. The Great Satan, the Arsenal of Imperialism, the Bankroller of Zionism, the Bastion of Neo-Colonialism. The home of Hollywood and blonde sluts in black nylon. The land of rocket-equipped F-15s that slashed across God's sky, in godless pride. The land of nuclear-powered global navies, with cannon that fired shells as large as cars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 75 L Sprague De Camp (mp3)   This week join Tony on the good ship StarShipSofa as he plummets into L Sprague De Camp. It’s not a pretty site. One of the founding fathers of not just SF but Fantasy, Historical, Fact and Biography – this guy has done it all. He even wins a Hugo for a biography he wrote all about – himself! Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Brin - The Crystal Spheres The Crystal Spheres by David Brin It was just a lucky chance that I had been defrosted when I was-the very year that far probe 992573-aa4 reported back that it had found a good star with a shattered crystal sphere. I was one of only twelve deep-spacers alive-warm at the time, so naturally I got to take part in the adventure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 74 Octavia Butler mp3 StarShipSofa now comes upon Octavia Butler. A shy writer who had to battle stage nerves and who once said, while accepting an award, she became a writer to avoid these kinds of moments. A true write of characters - her books are deep and meaningful. They are not full of ray guns and lasers but they are full of emotion, race, and love - something not normally associated with SF. Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Hal Clement (mp3) StarShipSofa aims her sights at one of the very first true hard science fiction writers. Join Tony has he pushes the StarShipSofa deep into the mind and books of this great golden age SF writer, Hal Clement. Get Ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Watts The Second Coming of jasmine Fitzgerald The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald by Peter Watts What’s wrong with this picture? Not much at first glance. Blood pools in a pattern, entirely consistent with the victim… Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 72 Flowers For Algernon (mp3)       This week StarShipSofa crash lands, bang in the middle of the book, Flowers for Algernon. Join Tony as he takes you on a in depth ride through this great novel, written by US author Daniel Keyes. And... if that's not enough...Tony invites his good friend Fred Himebaugh onto the StarShipSofa for his point of view. Something tells Tony, Fred 's not as keen on the book as he is. You decide. Get ready, Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 71 Christmas Chat StarShipSofa comes in for a chat with Ciaran and Tony... Find out what the two Sofanaughts got for Christmas and what SF books they are looking forward to reading in 2008. Blast Off Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Moorcock Through The Shaving Mirror THROUGH THE SHAVING MIRROR by Michael Moorcock “HAS ANYONE noticed,” Monsignor Cornelius spoke urgently hoping to divert Sir Perkin Float, on his third bottle of claret, from developing that familiar litany about discovering Chaos Math years before Mandelbrot, thus being cheated of his place in history and his video royalties, “how cats can turn off time?  With a suitable lens, of course.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 69 Sex In Science Fiction mp3   A week late but the Sofa had to build herself up to this mighty beast. If it's sex in SF you'll find it here. Join Ciaran and Tony as they take you back to the very early days, then travel with them through the ages as we learn all about the comings and goings of sex in SF. Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 70 Spider Robinson Interview   And so StarShipSofa dusts down her interviewing skills to bring you an interview with none other than Spider Robinson, a SF writer who with the publication of Variable Star has made Sf fiction what it should be - a bloody good read. Also at the end, the SOFA has 20mins of Spider narrating from Variavle Star. Join Tony and Spider as they chat on the SOFA. Get Ready Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Moorcock A Slow Saturday Night At The Surrealist Sporting Club A SLOW SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE SURREALIST SPORTING CLUB by Michael Moorcock I HAPPENED TO be sitting in the snug of the Strangers’ Bar at the Surrealist Sporting Club on a rainy Saturday night, enjoying a well mixed Existential Fizz (2 pts Vortex Water to 1 pt Sweet Gin) and desperate to meet a diverting visitor,  when Death slipped unostentatiously into the big chair opposite, warming his bones at the fire and remarking on the unseasonable weather.   _______________ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Moorcock The Lost Sorceress of The Silent Citadel LOST SORCERESS OF THE SILENT CITADEL  by Michael Moorcock _______________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Homage to Leigh Brackett   They came on the Earthling naked, somewhere in the Shifting Desert when Mars’s harsh sunlight beat through thinning atmosphere and the sand was raw glass cutting into bare feet.  His skin hung like filthy rags from his bloody flesh.  He was starved, filthy, making noises like a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 68 Jerry Pournelle (mp3) So this week, we turn the StarShipSofa towards Mr Jerry Pournelle, a fantastic SF writer, who in his own right has blazed the skies of the SF world. Join Ciaran and Tony as they discover all about Mr Pournelle. Get Ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa presents London Bone by Michael Moorcock Michael Moorcock's London Bone kicks off the first of our StarShipSofa Presents. This is the first of five stories by Michael Moorcock. A man in some area's called the Cartographer of the Multiverse. StarShipSofa calls him a damn fine fellow.   LONDON BONE  by Michael Moorcock ______________________________________________________________________________  For Ronnie Scott     l.  MY NAME IS Raymond Gold and I’m a well-known dealer. I was born too many ye ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 67 larry Niven (mp3)   StarShipSofa touches down on Larry Niven, creator of Ringworld and many more fine tales. Join the two SF Sofanaughts as they travel across Larry Niven's Knowns Space in search of wonder and glory. Niven is one of the ture living greats. Get ready for the science fiction show of your life. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 66 Moorcock Gonzo Audio (mp3) StarShipSofa landed in France and this is what happen to its Sofanaughts! The night before and a couple of drinks to calm the nerves. Ciaran's miniature cider bottles! Ciaran in deep conversation... any guesses what about.... yep, Moorcock. It's 01:00 and Tony is Moorcocked out. The day of the shoot and the Boy Wonder is pumped and ready to go. The man himself - Mr Moorcock. And........ Action! Michael Moorcock explaining why he ate Tony's lunch. Errr.... Tony wanting to try Franc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Discussion Pratchett (mp3) This is a slightly different show this week. The SOFA comes to you on auto as the due are away in France doing their TV documentary on Michael Moorcock. So this week Tony talks to his and Ciaran's friend, Bob Laverick about Pratchett. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 64 Walter M Miller Part 2 (mp3)     Science fiction Sofanaughts, Tony and Ciaran finish off their part 2 homage to Walter M Miller Jr. In this fine and dandy show, find out how it all ended for Miller and the tale of how his unfinished book came into being. And, more than anything is Walter M Miller a one-trick-pony? A grand SF show if ever. Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 63 Walter M Miller Part 1 mp3 Amazon.com Widgets Welcome to our special on the man who only wrote one novel in his lifetime, but what a book! The StarShipSofa is so very proud to give you Part 1 of the Walter M Miller story. Get ready. Blast off.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Dan Dare part 2 (mp3)   We come to our second science fiction special on Dan Dare and Ciaran is in heaven, Tony is learning fast. Follow the Sofanaught duo into Dan Dare Part 2. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 61Dan Dare Part1 A SF trip down memory lane for this 2 part show. Ciaran and his love for this comic hero clearly shows...Tony, having no idea who Frank Hampson and Dan Dare were, is learning fast! Join this duo on a round trip covering the life and times of Dan Dare. Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 60 Interzone (mp3)   Well it's about time the StarShipSofa came upon the UK SF magazine, Interzone. It is with great pleasure and fond memories that we hit this fantastic short story magazine. Blast Off. Check blog for army address to send books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 59 C M Kornbluth (mp3)   StarShipSofa looks towards C M Kornbluth this week in her SF podcast. Kornbluth was a writer who in his very short live life turned out so many fantastic science fiction short stories and together with Frederick Pohl gave us the classic Space Merchants. Kornbluth was the youngest of the New York based science fiction writing group, The Futurians. He died young and this will always remain a great lost to the SF world. He was on route for an interview with the F&SF magazine, to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 58 Joan D Vinge Part 2 (mp3) The science fiction podcast that we know and love, the good ship StarShipSofa, heads over to Mrs. Joan D Vinge this week. Once married to last week’s author, Vernor Vinge, Joan D Vinge blazed across the skies with her novels, Cat's Paw, Snow Queen, and Summer Queen. In her own words, she once described herself as the token female writer for Analog. This writer is no token writer - winning award after award Joan D Vinge is up there with the greats and back on track with a new novel, L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 57 Vernor Vinge Part 1 (mp3) Blasting off this week into a 2 part science fiction special, the StarShipSofa is proud to give you, the hottest property in SF literature at the moment. A man riding the wave of the Sci Fi Singularity. A man who owns the keys to that big ideas factory in the sky. Ladies and Gentleman, boy and girls, cats and dogs - we give you, Vernor Vinge. Blast Off. Essay by Vernor Vinge on The Singularity Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 56 Clifford D Simak mp3 Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 - April 25, 1988) was a leading American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award, as well as being named the third Grand Master by the SFWA in 1977. Clifford Donald Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin, son of John Lewis and Margaret (Wiseman) Simak. He married Agnes Kuchenberg on April 13, 1929 and they had two children, Scott and Shelley. Simak attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later worked at various n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa Hugo Winner Update (mp3) The StarShipSofa updates you on the winner of the 2007 Hugo award for best novel. Find out if either Tony or Ciaran know anything about SF.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 55 Andre Norton (mp3) Blasting off this week, the StarShipSofa hits science fiction and fantasy writer, Andre Norton. A winner of so many awards and a writer of so many novels - it’s just not funny.She published her first novel in 1934 and in her lifetime wrote more that 130 novels. Get ready… Blast Off Voodoo Planet mp3 Gary Hicks - Terra Incognita   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 54 Science Fiction Classic Hugo's 2007 StarShipSofa hits the big award of 2007 - yes it the HUGO. So, in it to win it this year are: Best Novel   Eifelheim   Michael Flynn  (Tor)    His Majesty's Dragon   Naomi Novik   (Del Rey)     Glasshouse   Charles Stross   (Ace)     Rainbows End   Vernor Vinge   (Tor)     Blindsight   Pet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 54 Science Fiction Classic Hugo's 2007 StarShipSofa hits the big award of 2007 - yes it the HUGO. So, in it to win it this year are: Best Novel   Eifelheim   Michael Flynn  (Tor)    His Majesty's Dragon   Naomi Novik   (Del Rey)     Glasshouse   Charles Stross   (Ace)     Rainbows End   Vernor Vinge   (Tor)     Blindsight   Pet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 53 Science Fiction Classic Computers in SF The science fiction podcast, StarShipSofa this week looks at Computers In SF. From the very early with Jonathan Swift, through to E. M. Forster's The Machine stops, right up to Hal from 2001 and Vernor Vinge. If you ever wanted to know the last word in computers in SF, then listen to the StarShipSofa. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 52 Science Fiction Classic Robert A Heinlein Part 3 And so we close on this great man, Robert A Heinlein. Love him or hate him - only you can decide. Listen to Tony and Ciaran as they storm into this latter period of his work. Not a very pleasant sight. Tony is now Heinlein'd out... gorged himself and can take no more. Ciaran dreams of a time before Number of The Beast. Find out which books Tony and Ciaran put at the top of their Heinlein tree. You will be surprised. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 52 Science Fiction Classic Robert A Heinlein Part 3 And so we close on this great man, Robert A Heinlein. Love him or hate him - only you can decide. Listen to Tony and Ciaran as they storm into this latter period of his work. Not a very pleasant sight. Tony is now Heinlein'd out... gorged himself and can take no more. Ciaran dreams of a time before Number of The Beast. Find out which books Tony and Ciaran put at the top of their Heinlein tree. You will be surprised. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Message from the Sofa Special message from the Sofa Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Message From The Sofa Our New Fourms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 50 Science Fiction Classic Robert A Heinlein Part 2 So StarShipSofa is sitting in the middle of Heinleinand still Tony and Ciaran have trouble with the pronunciation of his name. Armatures! Blast off thisweek with Heinlein's middle period. A one that won him Hugo's for Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Stranger In A Strange Land. Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 51 Science Fiction Classic Robert A Heinlein Part 2 So StarShipSofa is sitting in the middle of Heinlein and still Tony and Ciaran have trouble with the pronunciation of his name. Amateurs! Blast off this week with Heinlein's middle period. A one that won him a Hugo's for The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Stranger In A Strange Land. Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StarShipSofa No 50 Science Fiction Classic Robert A Heinlein Part 1 So we reach show No 50 and to mark this special occasion with turn to Robert A Heinlein and in conjunction with 100 years since Heinlein birth, the StarShipSofa starts an amazing 3 part special on this writer. Love him or hate him, there is no sci fi writer that has caused so much division in the science fiction firmament. In this show Tony and Ciaran hit the early years and his most liked period of writing - the Juveniles. Get ready. Blast Off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website