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StarShipSofa 781 Cat Rambo
Jun 17, 2026
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StarShipSofa 780 P. A. Cornell
Jun 3, 2026
56m 14s
StarShipSofa 779 Kenneth Mark Hoover
May 20, 2026
40m 05s
StarShipSofa 778 Will Waller
Apr 22, 2026
42m 56s
StarShipSofa 777 Carrie Finch
Apr 8, 2026
34m 14s
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| 6/17/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 781 Cat Rambo | Cat Rambo’s 300+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. In 2020 they won the Nebula Award for fantasy novelette Carpe Glitter. They are a former two-term President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Their most recent works are space opera Devil’s Gun (Tor Macmillan, 2023) and anthology The Reinvented Detective (Arc Manor, 2023), co-edited with Jennifer Brozek.Narration by: Diane Severson Daine Severson is a lyric soprano specializing in Early Music, specifically Baroque and medieval music and loves her work teaching people to sing. She has narrated for Escape Pod, PodCastle, Cast of Wonders, Pseudopod, and Tales to Terrify. Diane has been involved in the Speculative Poetry Scene since 2010, she is Vice President and membership chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association and is a passionate promoter of genre poetry. The best place to find her is on the web because she tends to pick up and move to another country at the drop of a hat.Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 780 P. A. Cornell✨ | speculative fictionawards+4 | P.A. Cornell | Frivolous CommaNebula Award+3 | Tucson Arizona | P.A. CornellNebula Award+4 | — | 56m 14s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 779 Kenneth Mark Hoover✨ | writingfiction+4 | Kenneth Mark Hoover | SFWAHWA+10 | New MexicoTexas | Kenneth Mark Hooverfiction+6 | — | 40m 05s | |
| 4/22/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 778 Will Waller✨ | science fictionnarration+3 | Kenneth Mark Hoover | SFWAHWA+3 | New MexicoTexas+1 | Kenneth Mark HooverWill Stagl+6 | — | 42m 56s | |
| 4/8/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 777 Carrie Finch✨ | fictionscience fiction+4 | Carrie Finch | GrowMore CookMoreBroken Time Blues | San Francisco, CaliforniaTucson, AZ | Carrie FinchDoni Nicoll+5 | — | 34m 14s | |
| 3/25/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 776 Sandra McDonald✨ | science fictiongender+4 | Sandra McDonald | Lightspeed MagazineUbergroup | Florida | Sandra McDonaldStarpoop+5 | — | 43m 28s | |
| 3/11/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 775 Caren Gussoff Sumption✨ | autismscience fiction+3 | Caren Gussoff Sumption | School of the Art Institute of ChicagoCarl Brandon Society+4 | Seattle, WA | Caren Gussoff Sumptionscience fiction+3 | — | 54m 54s | |
| 2/4/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 775 Lori Selke✨ | ESL educationqueer activism+4 | Lori Selke | Nightmare MagazineStrange Horizons+8 | Oakland, CaliforniaTucson, Arizona | Lori SelkeESL instructor+5 | — | 36m 59s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 774 Caren Gussoff Sumption✨ | autismscience fiction+4 | Caren Gussoff Sumption | Carl Brandon SocietySo Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion+1 | Seattle, WATucson Arizona | Caren Gussoff SumptionStarShipSofa+4 | — | 1h 02m 47s | |
| 1/7/26 | ![]() StarShipSofa 773 K. Ceres Wright✨ | cyberpunkmilitary sci-fi+3 | K. Ceres Wright | Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative FictionCog+6 | — | K. Ceres Wrightcyberpunk+3 | — | 38m 43s | |
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| 12/24/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 772 Jeremy Szal✨ | epic fantasydark space opera+4 | Jeremy Szal | StarShipSofaGollancz/Hachette+2 | Sydney, AustraliaTucson Arizona | Jeremy SzalStarShipSofa+5 | — | 1h 10m 53s | |
| 12/10/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 771 Alethea Kontis✨ | fictionnarration+3 | Alethea Kontis | Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: The Worlds of Alethea Kontis | VermontSpace Coast of Florida+1 | Alethea Kontisnarration+3 | — | 28m 16s | |
| 11/26/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 770 Jeffrey Thomas | This story originally appeared in Punktown (2000).Jeffrey Thomas’s books include Punktown, Deadstock, Blue War, The American, and The Unnamed Country. He has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and John W. Campbell Award, and his stories have been reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories 2022, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #14 (editors, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling), and Year’s Best Weird Fiction #1 (editors, Laird Barron and Michael Kelly). Thomas lives in Massachusetts.Narration by: Christina RauChristina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations in person and online. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like FillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network. http://www.christinamrau.comFact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/12/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 769 Owen Kerr | Owen Kerr has been a writer, freelance editor, and indie game designer since 1999, but don't tell his mom; she thinks he's selling feet pix on MostlyPans. His most recent projects include lore for an OSR setting, a full-bore post-apocalyptic fantasy game (Splintered Moon - PbtA), and his self-published fantasy novel, Confessions of an Outlaw Locksmith. If you liked "Cycles," check out his LinkTree for more! https://linktr.ee/chantedeveningNarration by: Owen KerrOwen Kerr is also a voice actor and reader.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/29/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 768 Rudy Vener | Rudy Vener's stories have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, StarshipSofa, Sally Port Magazine, and The Beast Hunt Anthology Vol 1. He has won Connecticut's Tassy Walden Award for New Voices in Children's Literature, and been a finalist in the Jim Baem Memorial Short Story Award. Rudy is a retired software engineer, former online pizza marketing entrepreneur, and cheese lover. He lives with his family and two cats in North Haven, Connecticut where he is hard at work on more short stories and novels. Readers can visit him at www.rudyvener.comThis story is original to StarShipSofa.Narration by: Anthony BabingtonSome say Anthony Babington is a myth to frighten small children. Others say he is a government experiment gone horribly right. Both are correct, and both are wrong. From his secret volcano lair in Minnesota, he narrates podcasts, voice-acts, and leases his soul to corporate America. Find him on Bluesky and Mastodon as @AlephBaker.Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/15/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 767 Kelsey Hutton | Kelsey Hutton is a Métis author from Treaty 1 territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation, also known as Winnipeg, Canada. Kelsey was born in an even snowier city than she lives in now (“up north,” as they say in Winnipeg). She also used to live in Brazil as a kid. Her work has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Augur Magazine and others. When she’s not beading or cooking, you can find her at KelseyHutton.com, on Instagram at @KelseyHuttonAuthor, or on Twitter/X at @KelHuttonAuthor.This story originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Jan/Feb 2024.Narration by: Christina M. RauChristina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations in person and online. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network. http://www.christinamrau.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/1/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 766 Jay Caselberg | Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared around the world and been translated into several languages. He currently resides in Germany and can be found at Caselberg.net.This story originally appeared in Borderlands (Australia), January 2006.Narrated by Randal L. SchwartzRandal L. Schwartz is best well known for his seminal books on the Perl programming language that helped make the world wide web possible and popular. He produced a weekly audio and video podcast on open source software, but has given that up after 13 years to get those five hours per week back again. Between the podcast, and bouncing all over the world teaching programming and speaking at conferences, he’s no stranger to the limelight. He enjoys pulling out his gear to record yet another narration, and likens it to “getting to read bedtime stories to the kids I never had”, and looks forward to future assignmentsFact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/17/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 764 K. A. Teryna | K. A. Teryna is an award-winning author and illustrator. She was born in two places at once, one of which is beyond the Arctic Circle. Her fiction has been translated from Russian into six languages. English translations of her stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Reactor, Apex, F&SF, Podcastle, and elsewhere. Her English-language short story collection Black Hole Heart and Other Stories has been published by Fairwood Press. As of late, Chekhov the Cat has become K.A. Teryna's co-author. He's in charge of keeping her warm and firmly in her seat. K.A. Teryna's website is www.k-a-teryna.blogspot.com.The English language translation of "The Errata" by Alex Shvartsman originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2023.Narration by: Tahereh SafaviTahereh Safavi is an improv kid and your biggest fan. She runs the Ubergroup, a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low-cost fine arts education for adults. The Ubergroup offers university-level coursework, support, and networking for all writing-related art formats (including but not limited to: commercial and literary novels, stage and screen plays, short fiction, comics, nonfiction and academic, podcasts and webseries, picture books, poetry, IP writing, and some writing-adjacent arts such as acting and illustration) at a pace suitable for adults with full-time jobs and families. Alumni of the Ubergroup enjoy access to table reads for spec scripts, peer development of unsold work, and help editing projects under contract to meet agent/editor/producer requirements. The Ubergroup accepts writers in the English language from around the globe. Check out theubergroup.org for more.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/3/25 | ![]() AD Free StarShipSofa 764 Richard Dansky | MThe author of eight novels and two short story collections, Richard Dansky is widely regarded as a leading expert on video game narrative and writing. He has written for franchises including The Division, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Splinter Cell, and many others, and was also a key contributor to White Wolf’s classic World of Darkness horror RPG setting. His upcoming projects include the novel Nightmare Logic from Falstaff Dread, the graphic novel Bridgewater from Delcourt, and the nonfiction book The Video Game Writer’s Guide To Surviving an Industry That Hates You.This story is original to StarShipSofaNarration by: Kevin CraybouldKevin Craybould is a newly emerging writer and actor with a background in tech. His upcoming techno thriller Who is Sarah Smith is due out from Ever After Books in 2027. Find him at Metaphors are Lies (kcraybould.substack.com). He also reviews for Bookstack (newbooks.substack.co ). He is a proud alumni of the Ubergroup, an educational non-profit that provides college-level writing courses for working adults, and recommends anyone who wants to learn to write check them out: theubergroup.orgFact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/20/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 763 Robert Guffrey | Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. His books include The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook (Madness Heart Press, 2024), Cryptopolis & Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2024), Dead Monkey Rum (Planet Bizarro Press, 2023), Operation Mindfuck (OR Books, 2022), Widow of the Amputation & Other Weird Crimes (Eraserhead Press, 2021), Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Crossroad Press, 2021), Until the Last Dog Dies (Night Shade/Skyhorse, 2017), Chameleo (OR Books, 2015), and Spies & Saucers (PS Publishing, 2014). A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he's written for numerous publications, among them The Believer, The Evergreen Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, Rosebud, Salon.com, and TOR.com. In 2024 he was nominated for the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Award for his nonfiction work investigating extremist rightwing movements such as QAnon and Christian Nationalism. Forthcoming from Headpress is his nonfiction cinema book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, which covers one hundred years of film history. His website is Cryptoscatology.com.This story originally appeared in Flurb #7, 2009.Narrated by: Doni Nicoll-Duir Doni Nicoll-Duir (nickel-dar) is originally from the Western Slope of Colorado. He has lived in and out of Arizona his whole life and now finds himself settling down in Tucson, AZ. Doni works in the renewable energy sector as a design engineer and permitting specialist. When Doni isn’t working on saving the planet, one rooftop at a time, or trying to keep up with his teenage daughter, he can be found cooking, hiking or playing board games with his friends at one of the local breweries.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/6/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 762 Gustavo Bondini | Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over five hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He has published several science fiction novels including two trilogies, six monster books, a dark military fantasy and a thriller. His short fiction is collected in Thin Air (2023), Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019), Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).In 2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.His website is at www.gustavobondoni.comThis story is original to StarShipSofa.Narrated by: Alethea KontisAlethea Kontis is an actress, storm chaser, and New York Times bestselling author. She has received the Scribe Award, the Garden State Teen Book Award, and is a two-time winner of the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award. She was twice nominated for both the Andre Norton Nebula and Dragon Award. Alethea narrates stories for multiple award-winning online magazines and does freelance work for Writing the Other. Born in Vermont, Alethea currently resides on the Space Coast of Florida where she watches K-dramas with her teddy bear, Charlie. Together they are ARMY, VVS, and Black Roses. Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/23/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 761 Marie Vibbert | Hugo- and Nebula nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 90 times in top magazines like Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and been translated into Czech, Chinese and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.This story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2019.Narrated by: Christina RauChristina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations in person and online. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network. http://www.christinamrau.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/9/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 760 Libby Cudmore | Libby Cudmore is the author of The Big Rewind (William Morrow 2016) and Negative Girl (Datura 2024) as well as the Wade & Jacks series in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchock Mystery Magazine, and Tough. Her work has been published in Orca, Dark Waters, Stone's Throw and the Anthony Award-nominated Lawyers Guns & Money: Crime Fiction Inspired By the Songs of Warren Zevon, which she co-edited with Art Taylor.She is the recipient of the Eleventh Hour Innaugural Literary Prize, the Shamus Award and the Black Orchid Novella Prize, as well as a finalist for the 2025 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Standalone Mystery.This story originally appeared in Orca, A Literary Journal, #13, Spring/Summer 2023.Narrated by: Theo KipnisTheo Kipnis sits slowly in a red and pink room, not choosing, not doing. Horseshoes and dominoes line the casements and built-in shelves, on which framed pictures cherish quiet images of ancestors and cartoon cats. Again and again, he slows in the small room, feeling the steady shadow around him drip through his vision. He has wings on his tongue and a tiny, pumping heart in each eye socket. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/25/25 | ![]() StarShipSofa 759 Alex Shvartsman | Alex Shvartsman (Brooklyn, NY) is the author of Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, et al. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.His translations from Russian have appeared in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Analog, Asimov’s, et al. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series.This story originally appeared in Galaxy's Edge, no. 25, March 2017.Narrated by: Will StaglWill Stagl lives in Tucson Arizona and is a proud member of the StarShipSofa team. This month you'll likely find him tearing through The Devils by Joe Abercrombie at a local café or waiting for the next installment of Murderbot to air.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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16 placements across 16 markets.
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16 placements across 16 markets.
