The Glorious Tunnels of Our Gravitydragons
by Paul Jessup
The audio of this story was originally published in issue 730 of StarShipSofa on April 10th, 2024:
www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2024/04/10/starshipsofa-730-paul-jessup/.
A StarShipSofa Original
This production is The Seanachai Group's third official project - a Toronto-based motley crew of narrators and voice actors, founded by Rikki LaCoste:
www.facebook.com/seanachai.group
In our production for StarShipSofa, Rikki LaCoste narrates, with additional character voices played by sisters Isis West Costa, and River West Costa.
About the Author:
Paul Jessup is a best-selling video game designer, and award winning writer. He has several books out in the small press, with the latest ones being Glass House, Skinless Man Counts to Five, and Cancer Eats the Heart. With over 25 years of professional short story publications, he’s had stories in Apex Magazine, Clarkesworld, Interzone, Nightmare, and countless others.
Learn more at his website:
pauljessup.com "A sword-and-planet bonkers weird scifi story, The Glorious Tunnels of Our Gravity Dragons. This one is a lot of fun. It has psychic trees, a giant bear named Mister Buttons, the princess of Mars as a petulant child, and wyrmholes. WYRMHOLES. Made by gravity dragons!"
from
Narration, Voice Acting, and Audio Production,
released November 10, 2015
Podcast: StarShipSofa
www.starshipsofa.com
Aired:
April 10th, 2024
Episode Page:
www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2024/04/10/starshipsofa-730-paul-jessup/
Audio:
Performed by The Seanachai Group members Rikki LaCoste, Isis West Costa, and River West Costa.
Episode MP3 download:
open.acast.com/public/streams/6112ae920252fa86ccc84ffe/episodes/660e63a27ee18a00172effa2.mp3
The image used to represent this story was generated using Microsoft Copilot AI with descriptive prompts from the story by Paul Jessup on April 7th, 2024. We tend to avoid AI concerning creative work, but Paul Jessup's story was so strange we were hard-pressed to find an appropriate image to represent his story.
Considering his own description of his story, "a sword-and-planet, bonkers weird scifi story ... This one is a lot of fun. It has psychic trees, a giant bear named Mister Buttons, the princess of Mars as a petulant child, and wyrmholes. WYRMHOLES. Made by gravity dragons!", we decided to experiment and see what AI would kick up, based on a description of one scene from his story:
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