G'day speculative fiction lovers around the cosmos. Thanks for listening in to the AntiSF Radio Show 166 Beta with me, Nuke. I'm this show's host and editor. Stick with me for the next hour or so for an eerie treat of five flash speculative fiction stories from Issue 166 of AntipodeanSF, a fifty worder, and a review of the latest hard SF novel from the current master of the genre, Alastair Reynolds. The show will be encased with a thin shell of music from Epic Soul Factory, from an album called "Expansion Edition". If you like the music then you can grab a copy of the whole album for yourself from jamendo.com. Don't do that now, though. Why not roll back your eyelids, open the channels to your ears, and take a dose of what's coming. That injection includes fiction by Mark Webb, Shane Griffin, Jason Butterfield, Lynda Young, Wes Parish and Jean Gordon.

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Hello SF fans around the world, just a few words from me, Nuke your host and editor for this very show -- the AntiSF radio Show 166 Alpha, in which you will hear five fine pieces of speculative flash fiction from the pages AntipodeanSF online, something that you can always find at antisf.com.au, or even antisf.com if you really want to economise on your typing.

In this issue, beamed at you from a secret location in Nambucca Heads on the Mid North coast of NSW here in Australia, you'll hear speculative stories. Of course. And what you'll hear will range the genre boundaries, and perhaps even step outside them. Don't mind the wandering. Planets do it. And I do it too. Indeed, there's a bit of wandering and wondering in each of these stories. And no, naming them will not reduce there power over you.

You will hear "Make Mine A Macchiato" by Mark Webb, a story that sits firmly in the fantasy genre, then Eulogium by Greg Mellor, a bunch of words that is clearly science fiction. Then we have the stories that are harder to slot. These include "The House of Benevolence" by Ken McGrath, "Phobic" by Kevin J. Phyland, and Apocalyptia by CK Palmes.

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