Mainline Caffeine Overdrive!!!

It was a quiet week this week with my nose to the computer, banging through fresh pages, which is always a pleasure.

Nobody ever tells me anything, though, so I was surprised to learn that I was on Starshipsofa again — now the hot new fresh Hugo Award-winning Starshipsofa.

A few weeks ago, Tony Smith and I got on the phone to record an 8 minute Q&A that turned out much like the "three-hour tour" of the ill-fated Minnow, whose crew and passengers as we all know spent the remainder of their lives on Gilligan's Island.  But they had a lot of fun!  And bananas! I forgot to warn Tony that I sometimes ingest a pot of coffee instead of food for breakfast, ha ha, and suddenly we'd recorded 40 minutes of high octane excitement and chatter.

Perhaps better, Tony follows our interview with the smooth delivery of Mike Boris reading "Meme," which was in fact my first semi-pro sale to a magazine that you could actually find in stores (although this story didn't appear in print until after my stories in Strange Horizons, Space & Time, and the now-defunct Artemis Magazine).

Fresh, early Carlson fresh from the grind!   You can find the new SSS episode here.