Monthly Archives: April 2009

Guests this week on the  Sofanauts are:

SF writer, photographer, and web designe, managing Editor for Escape Pod, creator of twitter @Future! Jeremy Tolbert

Web producer for Tor.com specifically and Macmillan in general; printmaker; eBook-maker; science-fiction and Mac geek. Pablo Defendini

Paul Graham Raven is a freelance writer, editor, publicist and web-presence manager to busy independent creatives, and PR guy for PS Publishing, the UK’s foremost boutique genre press. He’s also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut.

Topics that may be discussed on this week’s show include:

1.) JG Ballard, novelist and short-story writer, has died after a long battle will illness, his agent has said.

2.) Save the Semiprozine Hugo Award

3.) Nebulas April 24th – 25th

Guests this week on the very first Sofanauts are:

Long time listener to StarShipSofa, creator of Fiction Crawler, His challenge: Write 1000 stories by the time he’s 50 years old. Current story count: 101. Current age: 39,  Matthew Sanborn Smith.

SF writer, photographer, and web designe, managing Editor for Escape Pod, creator of twitter @Future! Jeremy Tolbert

Last a writer of weird and speculative fiction who hails from the UK, published in  Electric Velocipede, Serendipity, Transmissio. Has Been broadcast on BBC Radio  Blogs for Guardian Unlimited and a graduate of the 2008 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop at UC San Diego – Damien G Walter.

Topics Covered:

WINNERS: 2009 BFSA Awards

Starlog Ceasing Print Publication Starlog.com announced the April 2009 print issue of Starlog magazine, #374, will be the last, at least for now

New Vonnegut Collection to Be Published According to Publishers Weekly,

Greg Bear to Write Halo Trilogy

Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson dead at 61

This is just a couple of mins intro from host of StarShipSofa, Tony C Smith as he lays down his manifesto to what is and what will be: The Sofanauts!

Each week, Tony C Smith will be joined by a variety of guests from the world of science fiction literature, SF blogs and publishing to bring you the latest news and gossip from the world of SF.