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David A Kirby

tony — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:57:16 +0000

This week’s guest is David A Kirby, a lecturer in Science Communication Studies at The University of Manchester. He has a great new book out called Lab Coats In Hollywood, a fascinating look at the relationship between Hollywood and the scientists.

Stefan Rudnicki

tony — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:05:37 +0000

This week’s guest is undoubtedly one of the top narrators working today, Stefan Rudnicki. He has worked on such narrations as Orson Scott Card’s Enders Game and now has teamed up with the quite brilliant Lightspeed Magazine.

Dee Cunniffe

tony — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:19:02 +0000

This week my guest is my very fine friend Dee Cunniffe. Dee is someone who has helped in many ways keep StarShipSofa new and exciting for me. He is also one of the best art designers I know.

Lavie Tidhar

tony — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:24:27 +0000

My guest this week is the fascinating and multi-talented genre writer Lavie Tidhar. His new book out is Osama.

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

tony — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:07:49 +0000

This week my guest are Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer. On 31st October they put out what is probably the most definitive collection of weird and strange tales in the stunning new anthology The Weird. Join me as I discover just how big a project this was to put together and Ann talks openly about leaving Weird Tales magazine.

Larry Santoro

tony — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:08:45 +0000

This week my guest is the amazing writer of all things dark Larry Santoro. Larry has a new short story collection out called Drink For The Thirst To Come.

Ditte Jensen

tony — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:02:04 +0000

Ditte Jensen works for the Fantask, the oldest comic and science fiction book store in the world.

Elizabeth Ann Hull

tony — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:48:42 +0000

This week my guest is Elizabeth Ann Hull, an American academic, political activist and science fiction expert plus she’s also married to someone you might know.

Paul Cornell

tony — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:15:04 +0000

This week I interview a very talented writer. Paul Cornell has worked in many areas in the genre field, including some quite far removed from the zap guns and spaceships but one thing is certain – he’s a great writer.

John Jarrold

tony — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:43:10 +0000

My guest this week is John Jarrold - a literary agent for more than forty genre authors. John Jarrold is at the heart of what makes a great SF, Fantasy or Horror writer.

Bruce Bethke Cyberpunk

tony — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:35:20 +0000

To kick off the relaunch of the Sofanauts podcast I interview a very special guest. In 1980 Bruce Bethke wrote a short story that would give a name to a whole new genre movement in science fiction and pull together writers like Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and John Shirley under one banner. That story was called Cyberpunk!

Mission Statement for The Sofanauts podcast:

At the end of May 2010, I came to the decision that I no longer wanted to run the Sofanauts podcast. Putting together a “science fiction news” show with three or four guests at any one time was way too much work for me. It had become a slog. I wanted to meet and talk to exciting people, but the longer the show went on, the more it was about making sure people were on time and sitting in front of their mics. That was not what I signed up for.

But the good news is that Sofanauts is back!

This time around, it will have slightly different format. The show will spotlight one guest at a time, and these guests will hail from all sides of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields, and even further beyond the scope of genre fiction itself. There are adventurers, scientists, thinkers, and other fascinating people with relevant stories to share. Like the tag line says: The World is Full of Interesting People. I intend to talk to some of them. I think you’ll want to listen. Please join me on the Sofa…

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Allen Steele

tony — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:48:33 +0000

Join Tony C Smith as he talks to the 2011 Hugo winning author Allen Steele.