Buffalo by John Kessel Hugo and Nebula nominee 1992 Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Locus poll in 1992 In April of 1934 H.G. Wells traveled to the United States, where he visited Washington, D.C. and met with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Wells, 68 years old, hoped the New Deal might herald a revolutionary change in the U.S. economy, a step forward in an "Open Conspiracy" of rational thinkers that would culminate in a world socialist state.  For forty years he'd subordinated every scrap of his artistic ambition to promoting this vision.  But by 1934 Wells's optimism, along with his energy for saving the world, was waning. John Kessel Due out in April 2008 John Kessel’s The Baum Plan For Financial Independence and Other Stories Narration by James Campanella

  This week the StarShipSofa smacks into on of the brightest stars in SF and that is Connie Willis. Join Tony C Smith on his own personal voyage of discovery into all things Connie Willis. And... listen as Tony  announces something really special for the StarShipSofa. Blast Off. BSFA BSFA Short Story 2007 Shortlist NewCon Press disLocations Connie Willis short stories online Fire Watch Inside Job Just Like The Ones We Used To Know    

Infinity Syrup by Laurel Winter First published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1992 Fay was Zen shopping, something she had learned when she worked swing shift in card assembly at IBM.  The effort of plugging six components into the right holes on four hundred cards had always left her too tired to think. Too tired to think, but too wired to sleep. So she usually stopped at a twenty four hour grocery on her way home and let her hands do the shopping for her. Hands reaching mindlessly, plucking items off the shelves. And she was always surprised to find when she got home and unpacked the paper bags that she had exactly what she needed. Laurel Winter Narrated by Diane Severson

It is with great pleasure that the StarShipSofa points her bows towards M John Harrison. Join Tony C Smith as he explores the worlds and times of M John Harrison in the science fiction podcast to beat all other SF podcast! Get Ready. Blast Off! M John Harrison web site

  Letters To The Future by Olaf Stapledon To my Great Grandson in early manhood. Sir, If ever you come upon this letter, forgive its preglacial dialect, and have patience to spell out its meaning. How gladly would I address you in whatever speech lives in your ears! The thoughts which follow must, I know, reach you only as dead and fragile specimens; but today they live. They flit among us dazzlingly and elusively, and we fight about them; for some of us fear them as the plague and would exterminate them, while others prize them as the light of our world.   Narrated by MCL at MCL Studios, Milton Keynes

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