Category: Fiction

The author of this piece, Jack Williams, asked if he could have five minutes of my time to talk about Flying Tiger Line flight 739. We ended up talking for over an hour, because no way could I tell him all about this flight in less. The interview was used in this feature on a new memorial being placed to commemorate those lost in this military flight.

New Memorial In Maine to Commemorate Missing Military Flight, Nebraskan

Realm has re-released The Triangle, a fun action thriller developed by Dan Koboldt and written by Dan Koboldt, Mindy McGinness and me, has been released as a podcast available to everyone. You can listen to all ten episodes narrated by Neil Hellegers for free on Apple, Spotify and other podcast sysytems.

The mysticism and intrigue of the Bermuda Triangle has just turned personal for Admiral David Segarra: his former ship, the USS Wasp, has gone missing in the area without a trace.

I had great fun taking part in this collaboration and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I think this is a great story and I’m really glad it is getting a bigger audience.

My talk on representations of age and ageing in Star Trek has been translated into Estonian for Reaktor magazine!

https://www.ulmeajakiri.ee/?artikkel-vanus-ja-vananemine-ulmes

I’m very proud to have been invited to present at Estcon and even more so that the talk was translated for me.

I was asked to take part in an interview for ABC’s The History Listen, which was used for a mash-up documentary on one of my favourite Australian characters, Diamond Jack.

It’s a fantastic format, which my mother described as natural storytelling, like we are all telling the story over drinks.

You can listen to the full podcast here: Diamond Jack, Smirnov and the Pelikaan

2020 has been a difficult year for events and conventions, which led to Estcon being the biggest event of the summer for me. My write-up and photographs were featured in the November issue of Locus Magazine and you can read all about it at the Locus online magazine: https://locusmag.com/2020/11/estcon-2020-report/

Attending a science fiction convention from a tent was definitely not what I expected to be doing this summer but my presentation went well and I had a great time.

I was excited by the opportunity to take part in the Exoplanet Demographics conference hosted by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech over the 9-13th of November.

The organisers of the virtual conference were surprised by the amount of interest they received from science fiction writers and decided to do a Collaborative STEAM public outreach project, soliciting science fiction stories, poetry and art inspired by the discoveries being presented during the conference.

I was given the abstract of a presentation by Juliette Becker entitled The Origins of Multi-Planet Systems with Misaligned, Nearby Companions. Inspired by the details of the discovery (at least those that I understood), I wrote a short-and-sweet science fiction story called “The Missed Connection”.

This was published in the Wednesday edition of the Heavy Metal Jupiters and Other Stories e-zine edited by Jessie Christiansen and Heather Clitheroe.

I’m doubly excited to discover that the author of the research talk said that she loved my story!

I absolutely love the story Sylvia Spruck Wrigley wrote about my #ExoDem research talk. I won't spoil it, but Rocky the sentient asteroid has a bad time because he makes some assumptions about STIP geometries! Link: https://t.co/c6eZhcYwbr https://t.co/7lguTpCzDC

— Juliette Becker (@jcbastro) November 11, 2020

This was a great initiative and I am proud to have been a part of it.

I’m thrilled that my article on Old Women in Science Fiction has appeared in Nature magazine!

I wish I’d tried harder to mention Chrisjen Avasarala in Caliban’s War and Ofelia Falfurrias in Remnant Population but I struggled with the space limitations.

You can read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03618-w

Here are some of my recent posts about life in Estonia that that you might have missed:

• I might have to become a vegetarian.
• Traces of battle and history
• The Mystery of the Green Dot (a shorter walk in the woods)
• Priimetsa Cemetery
• The Complications of a Slice of Strawberry Cake

Life is always interesting…

I’m very excited that I will also be presenting in Belfast at TitanCon. This is the 2019 Eurocon and takes place the weekend after Worldcon. It promises to be a great convention and I’m really looking forward to it.

I will also be taking part in Literature Night on Thursday night and hopefully reading something completely new!

I can recommend the panel on Game of Thrones: Series Retrospective which is taking place on Friday in the Waterfront room at the Hilton. I’m moderating and have already had a conversation with the panelists, who have a lot of very interesting things to say about it all!

You can see the entire programme on Grenadine: https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/titancon/en/titancon2019

I now have my schedule for Worldcon at Dublin and it looks great!

Here’s the official programming:

15 August 2019 13:30 – 14:20
Presenter: Throwing Grandma out the Airlock
Odeon 5 (Point Square, Dublin)

17 August 2019 12:00 – 12:50
Moderator: Invisible Work: Mothers and Caretakers in SFF
Wicklow Hall 1 (CCD)

19 August 2019 10:00 – 10:50
Panellist: Anniversary: Alcock and Brown
ECOCEM Room (CCD)

19 August 2019 13:00 – 13:50
Autographing
Level 4 Foyer (CCD)

I’m very much looking forward to this; also my first EVER trip to Ireland!