Aug 16, 2014

One thing I grok* about speculative fiction, and this is the term I'll use instead of science fiction despite that being what I might have used 20 years ago, is its power to explore uncomfortable notions, powerful notions, and potentially deadly notions. Specfic takes ideas and stretches them, nudges them, seeds them...

Aug 9, 2014

Who was it that said in a spooky voice "Good Evening?". Well, it certainly wasn't me. Hi, I'm Nuke, your host and editor, and it's time for you and me to journey into sound realms of the undiscovered. This is the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Adara, the seventh star of the ancient Chinese asterism of the bow and arrow, in...

Aug 2, 2014

G'day and welcome to the down-under podcast and radio show where speculative flash fiction belongs. This is the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Regulus, brightest star in the heart of Leo the lion, and this is the first of four shows to feature the fiction and contents of AntipodeanSF Issue 93, online at antisf.com.au. Where...

Jul 26, 2014

Do you experience something other than understanding when you hear the word Mimosa? Are you a synaesthete? On the other finger, perhaps you've seen or touched a mimosa pudica, also known as a "sensitive plant", a plant that closes its leaves when they're touched. That' s nothing to do with the reason that this episode...

Jul 19, 2014

It's the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Deneb, swanning about in the constellation Cygnus, this wonderful star featured in a story I wrote back in the dark ages, 19th brightest star in the Earth's night sky, but one of the brightest stars white hot stars in the Milky Way galaxy, thousands of light years away yet still so...