StarShipSofa podcast talks about Gene Wolfe

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Starship Sofa PodcastEpisode #31 of the StarShipSofa podcast finds the co-captains of Tony and Ciaran talking about someone who Nebula, Sturgeon, World Fantasy and Hugo award winning author Michael Swanwick calls; “the greatest writer in the English language alive today.” Yup, the StarShipSofa is talking about the legendary Gene Wolfe! Wolfe is author of the multi-volume novel The Book of the New Sun and many other highly respected Science Fiction works. Get in on the discussion immediately via |MP3| or pop the RSS feed into your podcatcher to stick around for more discussions too:

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Ambassador by Peter Watts on the latest Beam Me Up podcast

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Podcast - Beam Me UpWhile the latest episode (#42), of Beam Me Up doesn’t offer the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything, it does offer an unabridged reading of a short story by Canadian SF author Peter Watts. The story’s called Ambassador. A first contact tale about how bad-ass a species has to be to become a ‘spacefaring civilization’ – something that just might be a contradiction in terms.

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