By Jeremy Clift , author of Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny Artemis 2 lifts off (NASA) As we track NASA’s Artemis mission to the moon, the first high-resolution images of Earth from the Orion spacecraft are already reshaping how we see ourselves. The view of our planet suspended in darkness, its atmosphere glowing faintly at the edge, auroras shimmering at the poles, is at once familiar and disorienting, a reminder that Earth is no longer the fixed center of the frame, but a

By Jeremy Clift , author of Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny Simmons' best-known work. In the history of science fiction, a handful of novels have changed the trajectory of the genre, expanding its ambitions, reshaping its narrative possibilities, and introducing images that linger in the collective imagination for decades. Frank Herbert’s Dune  did it in the 1960s. William Gibson’s Neuromancer  did it in the 1980s. And in 1989, Dan Simmons accomplished something similar with

By Jeremy Clift , author of Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse The Wrath of Khan features a strong plot, increased tension, and a sharp supporting performance from Ricardo Montalban. What could a seventeenth-century Puritan epic possibly have in common with a twentieth-century science-fiction film? More than most classrooms acknowledge. At first glance, Paradise Lost by John Milton and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan seem worlds apart. One is a dense theological poem in blank ver

By Jeremy Clift , author of Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse In futures where bodies, timelines, and even identities are engineered, love becomes the one variable that refuses optimization. Science fiction is full of systems designed to improve humanity: longer lives, cleaner genetics, curated memories, digital societies. Again and again, those systems assume that what makes us human can be modeled, regulated, or replaced. And again and again, they are undone by something far ol

By Jeremy Clift , author of Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse Child spending time with her parents (Source: FreePik) One of the quiet revolutions in contemporary science fiction is not faster-than-light travel or artificial intelligence, but parenthood itself. As speculative futures increasingly abandon biological reproduction as a default, science fiction is asking an older, more unsettling question: what makes someone a parent when birth is no longer the defining act? From arti

By Jeremy Clift , author of Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse Born in Space, an experiment in what belief looks like when stripped of tradition. Science fiction has always been a literature of possibility. We look to the stars, to distant futures, to alien civilizations, and ask: What might we become? But beneath the spaceships, quantum networks, and planetary colonies, another force is quietly at work shaping our stories—religion. Whether writers embrace it, resist it, or reinv

By Jeremy Clift, author of Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse What if the greatest horror for humanity isn’t war, or climate collapse, or AI, but realizing we still know almost nothing at all? Indeed, life prepares us for nothing. That’s the question at the heart of cosmic horror, a genre that once lurked in the shadows of gothic tales and occult dread but has found new life in the age of space telescopes, quantum theory,   alien megastructures, and the approach of the interstella

By Jeremy Clift, author of   Born in Space   and   Space Vault This August, as writers and fans from around the world gather in Seattle...

By Jeremy Clift, author of   Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse A growing struggle over identity. What does it mean to be yourself in a world...

Jeremy Clift, author of   Born in Space Jeremy Clift at the Space Foundation in Colorado. At a time when AI, genetic engineering, and...

Jeremy Clift Cixin Liu, a former Chinese computer engineer. Best known internationally for his trilogy, starting with The Three Body...

Jeremy Clift Robert Silverberg signing copies of his books for fans at the Glasgow World Sci-fi Convention in 2024, Science fiction has a...

Jeremy Clift Octavia Butler discovered science fiction as an inquisitive child when she was 12. The year 2025 looms large in Octavia...

Jeremy Clift Vernor Vinge was a computer science and mathematics professor before coming to prominence as a writer. Vernor Vinge, who...

Jeremy Clift I remember the first time I picked up The Space Merchants  by Frederik Pohl. It was a bright orange dog-eared copy I found...

Jeremy Clift Travel through the cosmos from the luxury of your armchair listening to the gripping audio book version of the epic sci-fi...

Jeremy Clift   Alastair Reynolds is a name that stands out in science fiction, not just for his compelling narratives but for the deep,...

Jeremy Clift For aspiring writers and ardent readers alike, the work of Texas-born Martha Wells offers a masterclass in crafting...

Jeremy Clift Anne McCaffrey was so into dragons that she even named her house in Ireland, Dragonhold . After all, the dragons had paid...

What inspired you to write Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny? "Born in Space" is set in a not-too-distant future where Earth is becoming...