Main Fiction: “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Nancy Kress Originally published in Asimov’s Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-three books, including twenty-six novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Her work has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Her most recent […]
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StarShipSofa No 574 Alastair Reynolds
PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 433 – LAST WEEK 437 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: “Belladona Nights” by Alastair Reynolds Originally published in The Weight of Words Alastair Reynolds is science fiction writer who has been published since 1990. He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. Reynolds read physics […]
StarShipSofa No 573 Ian Whates
PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 437 – LAST WEEK 437 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: “Montpellier” by Ian Whates Ian Whates lives in a sleepy Cambridgeshire village with his partner, Helen, and a manic cocker spaniel called Bundle. A writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy, he is the author of […]
StarShipSofa No 572 Gwyneth Jones
Main Fiction: “Saving Tiamaat” by Gwyneth Jones Originally published in The New Space Opera. Gwyneth Jones is a writer and critic of genre fiction. She’s won the Tiptree award, two World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association short story award, the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night award, the […]
StarShipSofa No 571 Madeline Ashby
PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 437 – LAST WEEK 437 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: “Domestic Violence” Originally published in Slate.com Madeline Ashby is a futurist and science fiction writer living in Toronto. Her work has been published in Slate, MIT Technology Review, BoingBoing, McSweeney’s, Clarkesworld, and elsewhere. Her novel COMPANY TOWN […]