Thanks And The Sofa

Hey, you guys, It's time once again to nominate your favorite contributors to StarShipSofa's wonderful Aural Delights show for The Sofanaut Awards. These are nominations so you can pick as many favorites as you like. I'm eligible in three categories. Just sayin'.

Best Main Fiction: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diplomat
Best Flash/Short Fiction: A Hard Rain and Brothers and Sisters All
Best Fact Article Contributor: Fiction Crawler, Movie Talk Special - Watchmen

Thanks a bunch for listening! You can vote here:

http://sofanauts2010.questionpro.com/

Next, I want to wish all you Americans and ex-pats out there a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow and you know, I've had a shit year (debt, divorce and death, among other plagues), but I still have a lot to be thankful for. Family and friends like you guys, chief among them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Lastly, I have totally sucked at plugging the Sofa lately, so let's remedy that right now:

Aural Delights No 110 Cory Doctorow

Editorial: by StarShipSofa Stories by Sean Keough

Fact Article: The Sofanaut Awards by Mark Bormann

Fact Article: With A Little Help by Cory Doctorow

Main Fiction: To Go Boldly by Cory Doctorow

Fact: Film Talk by Rod Barnett

New Titles by Tony C Smith

Narrators: JJ Campanella, Paul Caggige

Art Cover by Skeet

The Sofanauts Awards 2010 VOTE NOW!

The Bears Shall Growl

This is nifty! Paul W. Campbell's upcoming podcast, Cossmass Infinities, will be doing an audio version of my story Fluff and Buttons on the Teddy Bear Range next year. Yay! Paul narrated my story Brothers and Sisters All on StarShipSofa's Aural Delights podcast earlier this year and I thought he did a wonderful job. Can't wait to hear what he does with the bears. I'll let you guys know when it's available.

An Embarrassment Of Sofa Riches!

Four (4) Episodes of StarShipSofa this week! Even better: Me x 2 on episode 68! You lucky bastards! Exclamation points all around!

First off StarShipSofa is proud to be showcasing three of the nominees for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Story:

Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account by M. Rickert
Permalink: http://www.starshipsofa.com/podcast/StarShipSofa_BSFA_Nominee_Mary_Rickert.mp3

Little Lost Robot by Paul McAuley
Permalink: http://www.starshipsofa.com/podcast/StarShipSofa_BSFA_Nominee_Paul_McAuley.mp3

Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Permalink: http://www.starshipsofa.com/podcast/StarShipSofa_BSFA_Nominee_Ted_Chiang.mp3


Next, the regular weekly show, with a piece of flash fiction from me as well as Fiction Crawler 5. And may I say here that Paul W. Campbell does a great job narrating my story. Thank you, Paul. Eight characters and a dialogue only story, but you pulled it off!


Aural Delights No 68 Kim Newman/Benjamin Rosenbaum

Editorial: Kindle the Savior of Book Publishing by Tony C Smith

Poetry: Angle Bites by Tim Pratt

Flash Fiction: Brothers and Sisters All by Matthew Sanborn Smith

Fact: Sofa Art Cover by Skeet

Fiction: The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosenbaum

Fact: Movie Talk by Rob Barnett

Main Fiction Serial: The Serial Murders Kim Newman Part 1 of 4

Fact: Fiction Crawler No 5 Matthew Sanborn Smith

Narrators: Kate Baker, Gareth Stack, Paul W Campbell, JJ Campanella

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Links to the stories featured on Fiction Crawler No 5:

At the Bottom of the Garden by Jo Walton

Non-Disclosure Agreement by Scott Westerfeld

The Support Technician Tango by Daniel Abraham

Big Man: a Fable by Joe R. Lansdale

The Shangri-La Affair By Lavie Tidhar

Things by Ursula K. Le Guin

67

Early this morning I sent out my story Brothers and Sisters All and I just realized that this counts as number 67. Even though it was posted on this blog about a year and a half ago, I sent it to someone who is okay with reprints and so, by the rules I set for myself long ago, this story counts.

Yay.