Hugo- and Nebula nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 90 times in top magazines like Nature , Analog , and Clarkesworld , and been translated into Czech, Chinese and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats , was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review . She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohi...
Jul 23, 2025•32 min
Libby Cudmore is the author of The Big Rewind (William Morrow 2016) and Negative Girl (Datura 2024) as well as the Wade & Jacks series in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine , Alfred Hitchock Mystery Magazine, and Tough . Her work has been published in Orca , Dark Waters , Stone's Throw and the Anthony Award-nominated Lawyers Guns & Money: Crime Fiction Inspired By the Songs of Warren Zevo n, which she co-edited with Art Taylor. She is the recipient of the Eleventh Hour Innaugural Literary Pri...
Jul 09, 2025•38 min
Alex Shvartsman (Brooklyn, NY) is the author of Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his stories have appeared in Analog , Nature , Strange Horizons , et al. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His translations from Russian have appeared in F&SF , Clarkesworld , Tor.com, Analog , Asimov’s , et al. Alex has edited ov...
Jun 25, 2025•43 min
Pedro Iniguez is a Mexican-American Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Rhysling Award-nominated horror and science-fiction writer from Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future , and Fever Dreams of a Parasite , among others. Forthcoming books include his SFF collection, Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories , and his debut picture book, The Fib , which are slated for 2025 releases. This story originally appeared in Infinite Constellations...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr
Maggie Slater’s (she/her) speculative fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Metaphorosis, and Redivider, among other venues. She lives in an 1800s farmhouse in New England with two half-tamed boys, one half-trained dog, her husband, her parents, and at least one benign ghost. For more information about her and her current projects, visit her blog at maggieslater.com or find her on Instagram: @maggiedot_writes or on Bluesky: @maggiedotwrites. "Any Day But Today..." originally appeared in Androme...
May 28, 2025•28 min
Tina Connolly writes fantastical stories for kids, teens, and grown-ups. Some of them are serious and some of them involve flying bananas. Her books include the Ironskin and Seriously Wicked series, the collection On the Eyeball Floor , and the official Choose Your Own Adventure book Glitterpony Farm . She has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. She also co-hosts Escape Pod , narrates stories, and runs the intermittent flash fiction podcast Toasted Cake . Find her at ...
May 14, 2025•55 min
Akis Linardos is a writer of bizarre things, a biomedical AI scientist, and maybe human. He’s also a Greek that hops across countries as his career and exploration urges demand. Find his words at Apex , Strange Horizons , Uncharted , Heartlines Spec , and visit his lair for more: https://linktr.ee/akislinardos This story originally appeared in The Colored Lens #49, Autumn 2023. Narrated by: Doni Nicoll Doni Nicoll-Duir (nickel-dar) is originally from the Western Slope of Colorado. He has lived i...
Apr 30, 2025•24 min
Bogi's bios can be found scattered all over the internet. In the spirit of cooperation demonstrated in the story, Bogi would like to ask you to take a few moments to engage in a tangible act of solidarity with people experiencing state violence and/or oppression: Palestinians, Ukrainians, Roma in Hungary and the world over, and more — the list is very long, but maybe together we can make it shorter and help each other. This story originally appeared in Life Beyond Us Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law, ...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Sarah Day writes horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Her debut dark fantasy novella Greyhowler is available from Underland Press (https://books2read.com/b/greyhowler). Find her on Bluesky (@sarahday.org) or subscribe to her newsletter (https://buttondown.com/sarahday). Tim Pratt is the author of more than thirty novels, most recently multiverse/space opera adventure The Knife and the Serpent . He’s a Hugo Award winner for short fiction, and has been a finalist for Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturge...
Mar 19, 2025•49 min
Main fiction: "The Ganymede Blues" by e rathke e rathke writes about books and games at radicaledward.substack.com. A finalist for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award and recipient of the Diverse Worlds Grant, he is the author of Glossolalia , Howl , and the space opera series The Shattered Stars . His short fiction appears in Mysterion Magazine , Cosmic Horror Monthly , and elsewhere. This story originally appeared in Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention, Rhiannon Rasmusse...
Mar 05, 2025•49 min
Guido Eekhaut is a European writer of weird, speculative fiction, crime and literary fantasy, residing in Spain and Belgium; Dutch-, English and French-speaking, published 70 books and 180 stories in several languages, awards and nominations mostly for crime writing, no cat (likes cats, does not have one, but has a lot of books). This story is original to StarShipSofa . Narrated by: Will Stagl Will Stagl lives in his adopted home of Tucson Arizona where he is a creative professional by day and p...
Feb 19, 2025•31 min
Eris Young is a transgender writer of speculative fiction. Their work has appeared in publications including Escape Pod , GigaNotoSaurus , Small Wonders , and the Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories anthology from Flame Tree Press. Their novel-in-progress, Idomeneja , was longlisted for the Cheshire Novel Prize. They are fiction editor at Scotland's science fiction magazine, Shoreline of Infinity , which won a 2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Periodical. This story is original to StarShipSofa . Na...
Feb 05, 2025•47 min
Main fiction: "The Şehrazatın Diyoraması Tour" Selena Chambers is the author of Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle for Bloomsbury Academic’s 33 1/3 series, and the Weird short story collection Calls for Submission from Pelekinesis. Her writing has been translated in five countries, as well as published in the U.K. and Australia. Nominations include: the Pushcart, the Colorado Book Award, the Best of the Net, as well as the Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award (twice). For more info, check out: www.Sele...
Jan 22, 2025•35 min
Main fiction: "The Godfall's Chemsong" Jeremiah Tolbert is a web designer and writer living in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and son. He writes science fiction and fantasy. His work often places an emphasis on working class characters and how genre elements impact their lives. It’s predominantly optimistic about science, and is often set in the Midwest, generally, and his home state of Kansas, specifically. This story originally appeared in Interzone #244, October 2009. Narrated by: Doni Nicoll...
Jan 08, 2025•52 min
Main fiction: "When Dessa Danced" Donyae Coles is the author of Midnight Rooms , has a variety of puffy princess dresses and one cat but she wants more of both. She has traveled the world four times over and may do so again. Her short work has been published in a variety of horror and other speculative fiction anthologies and magazines such as Nightmare Magazine , Pseudopod , and All These Sunken Souls . When she's not writing, she's telling her stories with a paintbrush. Her website is www.dony...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Antony Paschos is a Greek author with short stories in Interzone , Galaxy’s Edge , ZNB Presents , Giganotosaurus , James Gunn’s Ad Astra , and other magazines. He has published three books in Greek and one in French. His work has been translated into four more languages. He is a member of the Athens Club of Science Fiction, and lives in Athens. This story originally appeared in Interzone #298, March 2024. Narrated by: Kalia Moles Kaila Moles is a Pacific NorthWest native who relocated to Tucson,...
Nov 27, 2024•42 min
Main fiction: "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!" by John Kessel Born in Buffalo, NY, novelist and story writer John Kessel is emeritus professor of literature and creative writing at North Carolina State University, where he taught courses on literature and creative writing and helped found the MFA program in creative writing. His fiction has received the Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, James Tiptree Jr./Otherwise, Ignotus, and Shirley Jackson awards, and twice received the Nebula award. The Dark Ri...
Nov 11, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Main fiction: "Spintered/Splintering" by Rhiannon Rasmussen Rhiannon Rasmussen is an author and illustrator of dark speculative works, not all of which involve exoskeletons. Rhiannon’s fiction has appeared in venues including Lightspeed Magazine , Diabolical Plots , and as Magic: the Gathering official web shorts. Visit rhiannonrs.com or @charibdys on Bluesky. This story first appeared, in a slightly different form, as a download via Gumroad and itch.io, 2022. Narrated by: Diane Severson Diane S...
Oct 30, 2024•37 min
Main fiction: "Quirks" by Marie Vibbert Hugo and Nebula nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared in top magazines such as Nature , Analog , and Clarkesworld , and been translated into Czech, Chinese and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats , was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review . She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day she is a computer ...
Oct 16, 2024•45 min
Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared in multiple venues worldwide and been translated into several languages. From time to time, it gets shortlisted for awards or appears in Year’s Best volumes. He currently resides in Germany. This story originally appeared in Interzone , June 2003. Narrated by: Nobilis Reed Nobilis Reed is the host and narrator of the podcast, “This Kaiju Life” which is entirely safe for work, and the editor and creator of the podcast, “Nobili...
Oct 02, 2024•33 min
Main fiction: "Movie Night" by Matthew Kressel Matthew Kressel's many works of short fiction have or will soon appear in Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Tor.com/Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies , and in many other publications and Year's Best anthologies. His far-future novel Space Trucker Jess (Fairwood Press) is scheduled for late 2025. And his Mars-based science fiction novella The Rainseekers (Tordotcom) will appear in early 2026. Alongside Ellen Datlow, he runs the Fantastic Fic...
Sep 18, 2024•42 min
Brian Trent is the award-winning author of the sci-fi thrillers Redspace Rising and Ten Thousand Thunders , and more than a hundred short stories appearing in the world's top fiction markets, including in the New York Times' bestselling Black Tide Rising series, T he Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Analog Science Fiction and Fact , Nature , Daily Science Fiction , Escape Pod , Pseudopod , Galaxy’s Edge , and numerous year’s best anthologies. Trent lives in Connecticut. His website an...
Aug 28, 2024•58 min
Edward M. Lerner is the author of eighteen SF novels and many shorter works. The final novel in his InterstellarNet trilogy won the inaugural Canopus Award “honoring excellence in interstellar writing,” while other stories have been nominated for Locus, Prometheus, and Hugo awards. 2023 was a banner year for him, with two new novels published. Those are On the Shoals of Space-Time and Life and Death on Mars . This story originally appeared in Deco Punk , 2015. Narrated by: Diane Severson Diane S...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr
Angela “A.G.” Slatter is the author of the gothic fantasy novels All the Murmuring Bones , The Path of Thorns , and The Briar Book of the Dead (Titan Books); the supernatural crime novels Vigil , Corpselight and Restoration (Jo Fletcher Books); twelve short story collections, including The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings ; the novellas Of Sorrow and Such , Ripper and The Bone Lantern ; and a Hellboy Universe collaboration with Mike Mignola, Castle Full of Blackbirds . She’s won a World Fa...
Jul 31, 2024•48 min
Main fiction: "Strata" by Benjamin Blattberg Benjamin Blattberg is a software developer, improviser, and writer currently living in Austin, TX, as long as there are no followup questions on any of those facts. His stories have appeared in PodCastle , Diabolical Plots , Apex Magazine , and other venues.. This story originally appeared in Apex Magazine , March 2022. Narrated by: Will Stagl Will Stagl is StarShipSofa's audio engineer but still enjoys lending his voice to the cause when duty calls....
Jul 17, 2024•31 min
Main fiction: "Blood Relations" by Adam Troy-Castro Sofanauts: Just search in your favourite podcast app for us! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sofanauts/id1740911381 Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OK9R9yAKasMqcjcJ0BSat Patreon for AD Free and Extra Content: https://www.patreon.com/Sofanauts Adam-Troy Castro made his first non-fiction sale to Spy magazine in 1987. His books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged ...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Main fiction: "The Bravest of Us Touched the Sky" by Carrie Vaughn Carrie Vaughn's work includes the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel Bannerless , the New York Times best-selling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her next novel, The Naturalist Society , is about 19th century ornithologists, awkward love triangles, and the magic of binomial nomenclature. An Air Force brat, she survived h...
Jun 19, 2024•46 min
Sofanauts: Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sofanauts/id1740911381 Spotify Podcasts : https://open.spotify.com/show/0OK9R9yAKasMqcjcJ0BSat Patreon for AD Free and Extra Content: https://www.patreon.com/Sofanauts Main fiction: Le Cigne Baiseur by Molly Tanzer Molly Tanzeris the award-winning author of five novels, two novellas, and many works of short fiction. Her official Jirel of Joiry revival, “Jirel and the Mirror of Truth,” will appear in New Edge Sword & Sorcery Ma...
Jun 05, 2024•52 min
Listen to Sofanauts: Apple: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65fa92b91c46ed0017ea13a2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OK9R9yAKasMqcjcJ0BSat Paste our RSS into the search of your favourite podcast app: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65fa92b91c46ed0017ea13a2 Main fiction: "Hanging Gardens" by Gregory Feeley Gregory Feeley’s forthcoming novel is Hamlet the Magician . His SF novel Neptune’s Reach recently completed its piecemeal appearance in various magazines and anthologies. He i...
May 22, 2024•45 min
Just search in your favourite podcast app for us! Apple Podcasts: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65fa92b91c46ed0017ea13a2 Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OK9R9yAKasMqcjcJ0BSat Main fiction: "Oasis on the Edge of Trappist" by Chris Balliet Chris Balliet is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter, traversing the city in search of playgrounds and good coffee. He is a graduate of Taos Toolbox in 2023 and has degrees in history and fina...
May 08, 2024•51 min
