{"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/b561b7d3-d8d7-44da-b897-86330eac2bd8?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa No 578 Alex Shvartsman","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6112ae920252fa86ccc84ffe/6112afa4d6c7ff0012729803.jpg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>Main Fiction: \"Whom He May Devour\" by Alex Shvartsman</strong></p><p>This story was first published in <a href=\"http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/whom-he-may-devour\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nautilus</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em>(2016).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. Over 100 of his short stories have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Nature, Analog, Strange Horizons, InterGalactic Medicine Show</em>, and many other magazines and anthologies. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction (2015 and 2017). He is the editor of the&nbsp;<em>Unidentified Funny Objects</em>&nbsp;annual anthology series of humorous SF/F, and of&nbsp;<em>Future Science Fiction Digest</em>. His latest collection,&nbsp;<em>The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories</em>, was published in 2018. His website is&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.alexshvartsman.com/\" target=\"_blank\">www.alexshvartsman.com</a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Narrated by: Margaret Essex</strong></p><p>Margaret lives “the good life”, on a small piece of rural N.S.W. Australia, with an amazing man a couple of pets, all the usual biting, stinging, critters that make great horror stories for our visitors and several rambunctious wombats.</p>","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}