Summary: Read by Graeme Dunlop. Listen above or download the MP3 Show Notes Today we present Part 1 of Peanut Butter and Jellyfish by Guy Stewart. Guy is a writer and science teacher who’s been writing since he was 13. His main focus is science fiction and writing for children. His passion is to someday create science fiction books that would do for today’s young people what Robert A. Heinlein did for him. His work has appeared in ANALOG and CRICKET, a Hadley Rille anthology called AETHER AGE: HELIOS; the emagazine STUPEFYING STORIES; science experiments in TURTLE and HOPSCOTCH FOR GIRLS, historical and contemporary fiction, and the curriculum for two PBS science programs, to name just a few. You can find out more about him at sfwa.org/members/gstewart. Of this story he says, “My first hard SF novel grew out of my fascination with the North American carnivorous plant called a ‘pitcher plant’ and wondering what would have happened if it had evolved intelligence. That story is INVADER’S GUILT and it’s still looking for a home, but I realized that among the young adults in the novel, there were stories about OTHER young adults — Human and WheetAh — that could be […]
