Podcast

Main Fiction: “Fingers” by Frederick Gero Heimbach This story originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (January 2019). Frederick Gero Heimbach lives a pulp fiction life and takes notes. His family lives with him, warily, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the author of two novels of satirical alternate history. Find his science fiction […]

Main Fiction: “Child of the Universe” by Christian Riley This story is original to StarShipSofa. Chris Riley lives near Sacramento, California, vowing one day to move back to the Pacific Northwest. In the meantime, he teaches special education, writes cool stories, and hides from the blasting heat for six months of the year. He has […]

Main Fiction: “A.I. Family Values” by Ben Spillers This story is original to Starship Sofa Ben Spillers lives in Pueblo, Colorado with his girlfriend and two dogs. A refugee from a career as a software engineer in the greater NYC area, he briefly reinvented himself as an artisanal bread baker in Vermont before regaining his […]

Main Fiction: “Transference” by Jay Caselberg This story first appeared in Transtories (2011). Jay Caselberg is a writer based somewhere in the wilds of Europe. His work, poetry, short fiction and novels, has appeared in many places around the world and been translated into several languages. Sometimes, he even gets shortlisted for awards. Narrated by […]

Main Fiction: “The Lizard and the Rat” by Andrew Dana Hudson This story is original to StarShipSofa. Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer and sustainability researcher. His stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Slate Future Tense, Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Little Blue Marble, and more, as well as numerous books and anthologies. He is a member of the 2020/21 class […]