2017: It had been an informative, engrossing, if not intriguing, event. Now the audience were getting restless, pining for their buffet lunch, a clip-on glass of mineral water, a chat with like-minded delegates. The audience: scientists, students, industry experts, sci-fi...

Free at last from the protective womb of her dead mother: its vacuous shell, the husk orbiting the new-born, Carmen began her meticulous descent. Descent, for a space-child, was particularly dangerous, requiring constant adjustments for the elements of risk:...

2030: The signal celebrating her awakening: a single pulse of energy, a starburst erupting from its molten surface, took 6.66 hours to reach Astute, the world’s most advanced orbiting telescope. Entrusted by scientists with autonomous digital deciphering decision-making capabilities, Astute...

Celeste died. Celeste was killed. Mercilessly. Painlessly. Celeste, the creature conceived, created, and birthed in deepest space was murdered, slayed, terminated by her life support systems, never to be resuscitated. A spent cosmic macro-organism, sentenced to drift, to float,...