Genres: Science Fiction
Cast of Wonders 21: Peanut Butter and Jellyfish (Part 2)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 2 of Peanut Butter and Jellyfish by Guy Stewart.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
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Genres: Science Fiction
Cast of Wonders 20: Peanut Butter and Jellyfish (Part 1)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 1 of Peanut Butter and Jellyfish by Guy Stewart. Guy is a writer and science teacher who’s been writing since he was 13. His main writing focus is science fiction and writing for children. His passion is to someday create science fiction books that would do for today’s young people what Robert A. Heinlein did for him.
His work has includes publications in ANALOG and CRICKET, a Hadley Rille anthology called AETHER AGE: HELIOS; the emagazine STUPEFYING STORIES; science experiments in TURTLE and HOPSCOTCH FOR GIRLS, historical and contemporary fiction, and the curriculum for two PBS science programs, to name just a few. You can find out more about him at his online.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 19: Cockatrice Girl Meets Statue Boy (Part 2)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 2 of Cockatrice Girl Meets Statue Boy by Willow Fagan.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 18: Cockatrice Girl Meets Statue Boy (Part 1)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 1 of Cockatrice Girl Meets Statue Boy by Willow Fagan. Willow lives in Portland, Oregon. They’re genderqueer, which for them means that they feel more like a pirate princess than like a man or a woman. Their fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Behind the Wainscot, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011. To read more about their writing and adventures, go to their blog.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 17: Saved (Part 2)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 2 of Saved by Arin Greenwood, read by Alasdair Stuart.
We gave Arin’s bio last episode but, at that time, I implied Arin is a boy. And here, I again display my fabulous research skills! Arin is a girl! My very humble apologies to Arin for getting it wrong. So it’s worth saying again, with the correct gender:
Arin Greenwood is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Washington, studying chemical engineering with a focus in nanotechnology. Apart from writing and reading, she is a dedicated musician, and a member of the Husky Marching Band at the UW. She attended the prestigious Alpha Young Writer’s Workshop in Pittsburgh for two consecutive summers, which features lectures taught by professional fantasy and science fiction authors, and the opportunity to meet writers of all ages.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 16: Saved (Part 1)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 1 of Saved by Arin Greenwood. Arin is a second-year undergraduate at the University of Washington, studying chemical engineering with a focus in nanotechnology. Apart from writing and reading, he is a dedicated musician, and a member of the Husky Marching Band at the UW. He attended the prestigious Alpha Young Writer’s Workshop in Pittsburgh for two consecutive summers, which features lectures taught by professional fantasy and science fiction authors, and the opportunity to meet writers of all ages.
Your narrator today is the ever-impressive Alasdair Stuart, the writer and journalist from a small island in the middle of the Irish Sea.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 14: Bad Kitty
Show Notes
Today we present Bad Kitty by Jason Dextraduer. He lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. If, like me, you know little about the US, Virginia Beach is the largest city in the state of Virginia; Virginia is on the West Coast. He works as a courier to pay the bills, and writes to keep the stories in his head from driving him crazy. Should he happen to have free time, he likes to spend it with friends, or outdoors letting the wind blow through him, or with a good story. Some of his other stories have appeared in The Hogglepot Online Fantasy Journal, The Absent Willow Review, and 5923 Quarterly.
Your narrators this week are the “Girl Friday Extraordinaire” Marguerite Kenner, who is becoming a welcome regular ‘round these here parts, and The Dark King of podcasting, Alasdair Stuart. Alasdair is a writer and journalist from a small island in the middle of the Irish Sea protected, the legends say, by a wizard who rolled wheels of fire down the central hill to dissuade invaders. Also it rained a lot, and he’s pretty sure that helped too.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 12: To Be True (Part 2)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 2 of To Be True by Jess Hyslop.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 11: To Be True (Part 1)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 1 of To Be True by Jess Hyslop. Jess lives in London has recently been ejected from the cosy realm of academia into the perils of ‘the real world’, where she is trying to survive the life of an aspiring writer. She studied English at the University of Cambridge and three years later, emerged with her passion for sci-fi and fantasy still fully intact. Extraordinary!
In 2010 she was awarded the University’s Quiller-Couch prize for creative writing, for Augury, a short story set during the Nazi occupation of Guernsey in WWII. You will soon be able to purchase the story from Shortfire Press.
You can find out more about Jess at her blog.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Science Fiction
Cast of Wonders 10: Mrs. Jai
Show Notes
Today we present Mrs. Jai by Wendy Bradley. Wendy was the TV critic for Interzone magazine for a time. She edited and published Farthing magazine, described by Ursula le Guin as “cooler than Asimov’s.” She went to the Clarion West writers’ workshop in 2003. She has been a hotel receptionist, bookseller, drama teacher, secretary and Civil Servant. Wendy lives in Yorkshire and works in London. She can be found on Twitter as wendybradley (check the show notes) where apparently she is “influential about football, business and drugs”. And she’s not sure what drugs they mean!
Your narrators this week include Marguerite Kenner, who narrated The Unicorn Tree in Episode 2, and Danielle Daly who narrated A Proof of Unicorns in Episode 6.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 9: Alienation (Part 2)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 2 of Alienation by Katherine Sparrow.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 8: Alienation (Part 1)
Show Notes
Today we present Part 1 of Alienation by Katherine Sparrow. Katherine lives with her partner in Santa Cruz which she says “is a bit too sunny and mellow for her over-caffeinated Seattle soul.” She’s a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, where she learned many excellent things. She has been selling short stories here and there and is currently writing a book about teenagers and the monsters who love them. Katherine especially likes writing books, because that’s where you get to do big things. Her work has been published in Escape Pod, PodCastle, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and many others. You can find out much more about Katherine on her website.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.