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Signup to Generate a PitchStarShipSofa is hosted by Tony C Smith. The show has published 809 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "StarShipSofa 789 P. A. Cornell" (28 October 2026, 29 minutes), "StarShipSofa 789 Marie Vibbert" (14 October 2026, 55 minutes), and "StarShipSofa 788 Eric Del Carlo" (29 September 2026, 36 minutes).
StarShipSofa publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 809 episodes.
Booking probability for StarShipSofa is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. StarShipSofa requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. StarShipSofa's contact route on record: verified email.
Tony C Smith hosts StarShipSofa, a fiction podcast with 809 episodes published.
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P.A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian speculative fiction writer. A two-time finalist for the Nebula Award, her stories have been published in over seventy magazines and anthologies, including Lightspeed , Apex , and...
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Marie Vibbert is a past Hugo and Nebula finalist with over 100 stories in pro publications from Analog to Zombies Need Brains . Her latest book is a novella, Multitude , wherein you can follow the hivemind of cephalopod...
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Eric Del Carlo's short fiction has appeared multiple times in Analog , Asimov's , and Clarkesworld , as well as many other magazines and anthologies over the years. He returns to StarShipSofa with the first story he...
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Tim Pratt (genderfluid, any pronouns) is the author of more than thirty-five novels, most recently multiversal space opera T he Jewel and the Comet . Pratt is a Hugo Award winner for short fiction, and has been a...
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Jeremy Szal was raised by wild dingoes, which should explain a lot. He writes epic fantasy and dark space opera of a character-driven, morally grey nature. He sold The Common trilogy to Gollancz/Orion when he was 23...
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Seia Tanabe is a horror and weird fiction writer based in Osaka. She won the 15th Japanese Horror Novel Award in the Short Story category for her debut work, "Iki-byobu" (The Living Folding Screen). Deeply inspired by...
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T. K. Rex is a science fiction and fantasy author from the western United States, whose stories can be read in numerous publications, including The Wildcraft Drones , their debut collection on shelves May 21, 2026. The...
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Scott Edelman has published 135+ short stories, many of which have been collected in These Words Are Haunted , W hat Will Come After, Tell Me Like You Done Before , Things That Never Happened , and 101 Things to Do...
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Cat Rambo’s 300+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s , Clarkesworld Magazine , and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . In 2020 they won the Nebula Award for fantasy novelette Carpe Glitter . They...
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Kenneth Mark Hoover is a professional writer who has sold over 70+ short stories, and several novels, including those of the Haxan series. He is a member of SFWA and HWA. His fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless...
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Kenneth Mark Hoover is a professional writer who has sold over 70+ short stories, and several novels, including those of the Haxan series. He is a member of SFWA and HWA. His fiction has appeared in Beneath...
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Carrie Finch is a writer in San Francisco, California. Her published fiction includes fantasy, science fiction, and horror. She has two cats, who take turns lying down on the keyboard and keeping her from writing...
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Main fiction: "Starpoop" Sandra McDonald is an avid writer, reader, foster mom, and cat wrangler. A military veteran and veteran teacher, she is the author of several books and several dozen published short...
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Caren Gussoff Sumption lives in a nest of books, knitting, and rescue cats, south of Seattle, WA. The author of 6 books (most recently, her postcolonial, deep space, far-future comedy of manners, So Quick Bright Things...
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Sandra McDonald is an avid writer, reader, foster mom, and cat wrangler. A military veteran and veteran teacher, she is the author of several books and several dozen published short stories in magazines and anthologies...
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By day, Lori Selke is an ESL instructor (and stealth adjunct composition instructor) who lives in Oakland, California. But beneath that wholesome and mild-mannered facade lurks a zine veteran, an education and...
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Caren Gussoff Sumption lives in a nest of books, knitting, and rescue cats, south of Seattle, WA. The author of six books (most recently, her postcolonial, deep space, far-future comedy of manners, So Quick Bright...
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K. Ceres Wright received her master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and her published cyberpunk novel, Cog, was her thesis for the program. Her short stories, poems...
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Main fiction: "Stars in a Grave, Stars in a Skull" Jeremy Szal was born in 1995 and was raised by wild dingoes, which should explain a lot. He writes epic fantasy and dark space opera of a character-driven, morally grey...
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This story originally appeared in Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: The Worlds of Alethea Kontis (2016). Alethea Kontis is an actress, storm chaser, and New York Times best-selling author. She has received the Scribe...
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author of The Common Trilogy
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Latino Community Association
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former Alberta NDP cabinet minister, College of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina
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