{"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/e3eaefb1-aebf-446b-af89-1c6ef55da57c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa No 539 Robert Dawson","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6112ae920252fa86ccc84ffe/6112afa5d6c7ff0012729922.jpg?height=200","description":"<p><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?c=238253\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patreon support now standing at 411 – last week 408 Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters.</strong></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Main Fiction: \"The Art of Failure\" by Robert Dawson</strong></p><p>Originally appeared in <em>Compelling SF</em>, March 2016<em>.</em></p><p>Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at a Nova Scotian university. He has been writing science fiction for about eight years, and is an alumnus of the Sage Hill and Viable Paradise writing workshops. When not teaching, doing research, or writing, he enjoys orienteering, fencing, and cycling, and volunteers with a Scout troop. His stories have appeared in <em>Compelling SF</em>, <em>Nature Futures</em>, <em>Tesseracts</em>, and many other periodicals and anthologies</p><p><strong>Narrated by: Eric Luke&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Eric Luke is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film <em>Explorers</em>, which is currently in development as a remake, the comic books <em>Ghost&nbsp;</em>and <em>Wonder Woman</em>, and wrote and directed the <em>Not Quite Human</em> films for Disney TV. His current project <em>Interference</em>, a meta horror audiobook about an audiobook… that kills, is available free on iTunes and at <a href=\"http://www.quillhammer.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Quillhammer.com</a>.</p>","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}