{"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/f6949169-72c5-4be8-a353-42727cc7310b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa 376 Timons Esaias/David G. Blake","description":"<p>Coming Up…</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.octagontech.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Octagon Technology</a></p>\n<p>Main Fiction: “The Fitter” by Timons Esaias</p>\n<p>Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in eighteen languages. He has over a hundred poems in print, in markets ranging from <b>Asimov’s Science Fiction </b>and 5AM to <b>Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Literary Journal of Baseball</b>. He has also been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award, and won the Asimov’s Readers Award. His story “Norbert and the System” has appeared in a textbook, and in college curricula. Recent science fiction appearances include <b>Asimov’s</b>, <b>Analog</b> and <b>Future Games</b>.His <b>News Nots</b> satire column appeared in seven newspapers, and convinced many readers that the Vatican was relocating to St. Louis; that the Pittsburgh Sewer & Water Authority had decided to add Prozac to the water supply (along...","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}