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StarShipSofa No 368 Brent Knowles Andy Weir
Coming Up…. Interview: Andy Weir – The Martian Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “Digital Rights” by Brent Knowles The Assistant responsible for the primary thruster arrangement killed itself just ten days after Izzy arrived on the solar station. The panicked chatter of the other Assistants prevented them from continuing with their […]
StarShipSofa No 367 E Saxey/Stephen V Ramey
Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Not Smart, Not Clever”, by E Saxey E. Saxey is a queer Londoner and fan of floral-flavour chocolate, whose work has appeared in Apex, Holdfast, Daily Science Fiction and Spacewitch Moonshots, and anthologies including The Lowest Heaven and Pandemonium: The Rite of Spring. Narrated by Elizabeth Armancas Ibba Armancas is a […]
StarShipSofa No 366 Paul Berger Alexander Burns
Coming Up… Main Fiction: Subduction, by Paul Berger Paul M. Berger has been a Japanese bureaucrat, an M.I.T. program administrator, an Internet entrepreneur, a butterfly wrangler, a museum tour guide and (God help him) a Wall Street recruiter, all of which, in the aggregate, may have prepared him for nothing except the cretion of speculative […]
StarShipSofa No 365 Alan Baxter
Coming up… Main Fiction: Unexpected Launch, by Alan Baxter (Originally published in Anywhere But Earth anthology by Coeur De Lion Publications) Gareth stared, open mouthed, at flames blooming massive and silent against a backdrop of stars. Bright, molten debris spun out from orange and black clouds, folding in on themselves without more oxygen to fuel […]