May | 2009 | Sofanauts

A writer of weird and speculative fiction who hails from the UK, published in Electric Velocipede, Serendipity. Has Been broadcast on BBC Radio Blogs for Guardian Damien G Walter.

Lawerence Santoro started writing when he was 5. Won a playground storytelling contest when he was 8. In his 50s he got 2 nominations for the Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers Association. In 2001, his novella “God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him.” In 2002, he adapted and directed an audio play based on Gene Wolfe’s “The Tree Is My Hat.” The show had Neil Gaiman in the cast and the script became his second Stoker nod. This past year, his “Little Girl Down the Way,” was the hardest most gut wrenching pure evil short story ever on StarShipSofa – and everyone loved it.

Topics discussed on this week’s show include:

Amy H Sturgis: Past SF writers still have something very important to say to us.

Ian R. MacLeod Wins Clarke Award

Asimovs and Analog readers-awards (Asimovs didn’t win Nebulas)

JeremiahTolbert: Getting Started Writing Science Fiction

The Sofanauts No 3

May 1, 2009

Guests this week on the Sofanauts are:

SF writer, photographer, and web design, managing Editor for Escape Pod, creator of twitter @Future! Jeremy Tolbert Radical thoughs on improving the print magazine. Art work F&SF

Gord Sellar: freelance writer and editor for more than a decade. Attended Clarion West 2006. Teacher over in South Korea. Up for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Ray Sizemore, a tavern manager and karaoke host hailing from Norwalk, Ohio, has come to enjoy acting– generally “bad guys”; he played Jud Fry in “Oklahoma” last year, and plans to audition for “Sweeney Todd oh… and voice for voice, pound for pound… one of the best narrators to hit the multipodsphere.

Topics discussed on this week’s show include:

Nebular Winners

Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030 Boing

Heinlein’s 13th Scribner’s Novel « Auxiliary Memory

Can Computer Games Be Literature?

Locus award for best sf of 2008 — shortlist published

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