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.SelenaChambers.com.

This story originally appeared in Steampunk World, Sarah Hans, ed. (2014).

Narrated by: Christina M. Rau

Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations in person and online. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network.

http://www.christinamrau.com

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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

Doni Nicoll-Duir (nickel-dar) is originally from the Western Slope of Colorado. He has lived in and out of Arizona his whole life and now finds himself settling down in Tucson, AZ. Doni works in the renewable energy sector as a design engineer and permitting specialist. When Doni isn’t working on saving the planet, one rooftop at a time, or trying to keep up with his teenage daughter, he can be found cooking, hiking or playing board games with his friends at one of the local breweries. This is his first narration for StarShipSofa.

Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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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.donyaecoles.com.

This story originally appeared in The Future Fire, #2018.45

Narrated by: Stacey Hart

Stacey Hart lives in Southern Arizona. She is the creator of EDICO Designs—a design and web development firm specializing in donating websites, graphic designs, social media content, branding, and video editing services to non-profits and small businesses. When away from the computer, Stacey is a drummer for the band The Liquid Centers with her bandmate Will Stagl, and adores spoiling her black chow chow, Billie. This is her first podcast narration for StarShipSofa.

Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis

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