{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9077c08c-f50e-4ce8-95d1-03fbe7cc72d1/0ad33ec6-467f-4ac8-b35e-96542b3df67a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa No 409 Sunil Patel and Prof Christopher Riley","description":"<p>Coming Up…</p>\n<p><b>Interview: Prof Christopher Riley and <a href=\"https://www.voyagersfinalmessage.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Our Message for Voyager</a> – <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/VoyagersFinalMessage\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page</a></b></p>\n<hr />\n<p><b>Main Fiction: </b><b>“The Merger” by Sunil Patel </b></p>\n<p>Originally appeared in <b><a href=\"http://thebooksmugglers.com/2015/06/the-merger-a-romantic-comedy-of-intergalactic-business-negotiations-indecipherable-emotions-and-pizza-by-sunil-patel.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Book Smugglers</a>  </b></p>\n<p>Sunil Patel is a Bay Area fiction writer and playwright who has written about everything from ghostly cows to talking beer. His plays have been performed at San Francisco Theater Pub and San Francisco Olympians Festival, and his fiction has appeared in <i>Saturday Night Reader</i>, <i>Fireside Magazine</i>, <i>Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Flash Fiction Online, </i>and <i>The Book...","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}