Firmament: Stories from the New Bounds of Space

Format: Paperback
Book type: Anthology
ISBN-13: 9781917093224
Published: 25 Jun 2026

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In a new partnership between Jodrell Bank, SKAO and Comma Press... Firmament: Stories from the New Bounds of Space (edited by Teresa Anderson) will be the latest instalment of Comma’s 'science-into-fiction' series. Fiction writers and scientists have been paired to collaborate and explore some of the cutting-edge astrophysics being conducted at Jodrell Bank and the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), an intergovernmental organisation headquartered in the UK and building the world’s largest radio telescopes in South Africa and Australia.

The end result: a new book of stories and essays inspired by the collaboration.

Authors will include Lucy Caldwell, Nell Stevens, Courttia Newland, Erica Wagner, Sanjida Kay, Emma Newman, David Cleden, Chris Beckett, Oliver K Langmead, among others... 

Stories will cover everything from SETI’s search for alien intelligence to new learning about the life of the cosmos. 

See Chris Beckett: Transmissions from Jodrell Bank event HERE

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