{"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-4ce8-95d1-03fbe7cc72d1/9bf85b5a-408b-4229-ae3d-1a196b46207d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa No 332 Sofia Samatar and Nina Allan (BSFA Awards Special Part 2)","description":"<p>StarShipSofa is proud to present all four nominees in the “Best Short Fiction” category of the<a href=\"http://www.bsfa.co.uk/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> British Science Fiction Association</a>! You can vote for the BSFA awards <a href=\"http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-2013-awards-voting-form/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here </a>by Monday, April 14.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Main Fiction 3: “Selkie Stories are for Losers” by <a href=\"http://sofiasamatar.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sofia Samatar</a> 02:00</p>\n<p><b>I hate selkie stories. They’re always about how you went up to the attic to look for a book, and you found a disgusting old coat and brought it downstairs between finger and thumb and said “What’s this?”, and you never saw your mom again.</b></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Sofia is the author of the novel <a href=\"http://sofiasamatar.com/Sofia%20writing.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">A Stranger in Olondria</a> (Small Beer Press, April 2013). She edits nonfiction and poetry for Interfictions: A...","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}