StarShipSofa 499: None So Blind

by Joe Haldeman

Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Joe Haldeman has garnered both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for his famous novel The Forever War, one of the landmark books of the ’70s. He has since won four more Hugo Awards, another four Nebula Awards, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for his novel Camouflage, the SFWA Grandmaster Award, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. His other books include The Accidental Time-Machine, Marsbound, and Starbound. Haldeman lives part of the year in Boston, where he teaches writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the rest of the year in Florida, where he and his wife, Gay, make their home.

Far Fetched Fables 170: The Breeding Dust

by Dennis Mombauer

(Originally published in Outliers of Speculative Fiction.)

Dennis Mombauer was born in 1984 in the namesake capital of the Bonn Republic and raised along the Rhine river. He currently lives and works as a theater agent and freelance author in Cologne, and rites weird fiction, textual experiments, and literary essays as well as non-naturalist drama and English poetry acculturated with German. He translates both fiction and non-fiction, and is the editor, co-founder, and co-publisher of Die Novelle – Magazine for Experimentalism. Dennis’ publications have appeared in various small- to medium-sized magazines and anthologies. He can be found online at dennismombauer.com.

PodCastle 463: A Dozen By Dunsany

by Lord Dunsany

Cast of Wonders 222: The George Business

by Roger Zelazny

 Narrated by Wilson Fowlie, Phil Lunt, and Cheyenne Wright

Audio production by Jeremy Carter
Originally published in Dragons of Light (October 1980)

Flashback -- Arcane Hororscopes

I recently rediscovered these recording I made for a podcast long long ago. The files are dated late 2007 so, gosh that's almost 9 years ago... I think the jokes still hold up...

StarShipSofa No 433 - ‘The Entire Immense Superstructure’: An Installation

by Ken MacLeod

Originally published in Reach for Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan

Ken MacLeod was born in Stornoway and lives in West Lothian. He has Honours and Masters degrees in biological subjects and worked for some years in the IT industry. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of fourteen novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to Descent (Orbit, 2014), and many articles and short stories. His novels and stories have received three BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and several have been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards. He is currently working on a space opera trilogy, The Corporation Wars (forthcoming 2016-2017).

In 2009 he was Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University, and in 2013 and 2014 was Writer in Residence at the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University. Ken MacLeod’s blog is The Early Days of a Better Nation.

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