Podcastle, Episode 923 for Tuesday the 23, 2025.

The Sun Globe by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt.

Read by Tina Connolly and produced by Eric Valdez.

This story is rated G.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Podcastle, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your host, Tina Connolly, and it is my privilege to present for your enjoyment, The Sun Globe by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt,

narrated by Tina Connolly. This story is a podcastle original. Heather Shaw is a writer, editor,

soist, bookkeeper, and Lindy Hopper living in Berkeley, California with her spouse and 18-year-old son, River.

She's had short fiction published in Strange Horizons,

the year's best fantasy,

Escape Pod, Pondcastle, and other nice places.

She has been the fiction editor at the Erotica Zine Fishnet,

the speculative fiction zine flytrap, and the pro-SFZen persistent visions.

As a family project during lockdown, Heather, Tim Melody, and their Sun River designed,

created and successfully kick-started a tabletop card game called Cyber Wreck. She mostly posts on Blue Sky at Sundew and Facebook at H.L. Shaw.

Tim Pratt, gender fluid, any pronouns, is the author of over 30 novels.

Most recently, Multiversal Space Opera, The Knife and The Serpent.

Pratt is a Hugo Award winner and has been a finalist for Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, and other awards.

She publishes a new story every month at patreon.com slash Tim Pratt.

Your narrator this week is Tina Connolly.

That is me.

I am the author of the Iron Skin and Seriously Wicked Series,

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