Original Podcast

Guests this week on the Sofanauts are:

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

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

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

Steampunktales

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!