Main fiction: “Stars So Sharp They Break The Skin by Matthew Sanborn Smith. This story was first published in Apex Magazine in April 2018. Matthew Sanborn Smith is a writer of surreal science fiction and fantasy who grew up in New England and has accidentally lived in Florida for a few decades. His fiction has […]
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StarShipSofa No 676 Jeremy Szal
Main fiction: “A Love Like Bruises” by Jeremy Szal. This story was first published in Kaleidotrope in May, 2020. Jeremy Szal was born in 1995 and was raised by wild dingoes, which should explain a lot. He spent his childhood exploring beaches, bookstores, and the limits of people’s patience. He’s the author of over forty […]
StarShipSofa No 675 David Hill
Main Fiction: “Saturn Slingshot” by David Hill. This story was first published in Far Orbit in March 2014. David Wesley Hill is an award-winning fiction writer with more than forty stories published internationally. In 1997 he received the Golden Bridge award at the International Conference on Science Fiction in Beijing, and in 1999 he placed […]
StarShipSofa No 674 Matt Thompson
Main Fiction: “Smoke Bomb” by Matt Thompson. This story was first published in Interzone in October 2020. Matt Thompson is a London-based experimental musician and writer of strange fictions. His work has been published at Interzone, Asimov’s, PseudoPod, Best of British SF anthology series and many more worthy venues. You can find him online at […]
StarShipSofa The Metaverse Pt 2
Join me once agin as I tell you just how long it will be before we enter the Metaverse for real.