Beach Blanket Spaceship
Our first piece of audio fiction for July is "Beach Blanket Spaceship" written by Sandra McDonald and read by Kate Baker.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandra McDonald is a former military officer, recovering Hollywood assistant, and perennially patient college instructor who writes across the genres of romance, history, fantasy, science fiction, GLBTQA, and young adult fiction. Her first collection of stories, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, won a Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction. It was also a Booklist Editor's Choice, ALA Over the Rainbow book, and Rainbow award winner. Her short fiction has been published in several dozen magazines and anthologies, including the Year's Best YA, Year's Best Science Fiction, Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tiptree Anthology, Asimov's Science Fiction, the Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and more. She has several novels in print, including the award-winning Fisher Key adventures and asexual-gay thriller City of Soldiers. She currently resides in Florida.
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Will Norman wrote on July 13th, 2010 at 3:43 pm:
Originally, I thought that this story and podcast would be trite, but Sandra McDonald proved me so very wrong. Well done to both the writer and narrator.
Bonnie Blithe wrote on July 14th, 2010 at 9:37 am:
Great story! Thank you!
David Jones wrote on July 30th, 2010 at 4:43 pm:
Excellent story! The title had me expecting something more or less cheesy in nature. It was nothing like that. Just when you think you know what's going on, everything changes again.
JimMcD wrote on April 29th, 2011 at 2:36 pm:
Great job of taking something so far out of the traditional Sci Fi Realm and melding it so well into a great story with great imagrey and twists all giving us several great themes! All presented so well by Kate Baker.
Acceptance!!