Firmament: Stories from the New Bounds of Space

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Announcing 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.

The commission process got underway this week when authors and scientists walked across the face of the dish and got up-close and personal with the furthest reaches of the cosmos. 

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 out next spring. 

Authors will include Alan Garner, 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. 

Watch this space...