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About
Jeremy Clift is a science fiction author and former journalist. A fan of Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mary Robinette Kowal, Cixin Liu, and Andy Weir, he is keenly interested in how space exploration will change humanity over the next 200 years. His first work of fiction, “Born in Space” is part of his Sci-Fi Galaxy series of novels built around the growth of orbiting space habitats and the exploitation of asteroids. “Born in Space” examines how life might be for the first children born off Earth. “What would it be like? Do you have a terrible craving to return “home”? Or are you really an extraterrestrial, a space being? Still a humanoid but having none of the experiences of life on planet Earth.”
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Focus
Clift says that solving how babies get born in reduced or zero gravity is one of the key issues for humanity if we want to populate space habitats or planets that may be light years away. Most people will not want to emigrate to Mars. But maybe robots will. And by then, they will probably be far more intelligent than humans. "Maybe what will be 'born' is some sort of genetically engineered hybrid that mixes the emotions of humans with the resilience and sturdiness of artificial beings."
Career
A former non-fiction Publisher at an international organization, he is a communications consultant and writing coach who has also worked in magazines and as an international news correspondent with Reuters. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the George Washington University, he has lived in a variety of major cities around the world, including Beijing, Bombay, Cairo, New Delhi, Jakarta, London, Manila, Paris, and Washington DC.
He is married with two grown children and lives in Charlottesville, VA.
