We’re stoked to be joining the British Science Festival 2022 next week. Celebrating everything scientific, this wonderful festival is open to everyone, offering over 100 FREE talks, activities, etc. Here's a quick peek at 10 of their space-themed events!
We’ve been busy in the engine room this past month, prepping our latest book for launch. It’s a collection of prose and poetry about ESA’s Rosetta mission by Space Cat’s poet and editor, Siobhan Logan. Dabbing away the oil spots and polishing the chrome, we’re finally ready to share the cover design with you. And note the brand-new title too!
At a time when climate change challenges to our planet are starkly evident, it’s good to be reminded of what humanity can achieve when we build on shared scientific knowledge. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission 2004-16 showed what was possible with transnational co-operation and ingenuity. Next month Space Cat Press will celebrate this mission with a collection of poetry and prose called ‘ROSETTA: Voyage to a Comet’s Underworld’. The book will launch at the British Science Festival 2022 in Leicester.
Have you ever wanted to land on a comet? Imagine exploring its shadowy underworld just as the sun is awakening its inner ‘dragon’. Next month, Space Cat Press transports you right there with another immersive collection of poetry and prose by SCP’s poet and co-editor, Siobhan Logan.
Thank you all for the lovely birthday messages this week. If any of you are interested in writing testimonials about our work, we'd love to have them. We're also looking for reviewers who are interested in arc copies of our upcoming Severed Souls anthology.
We have some big announcements to make this month, including a cover/title reveal, a book launch date, and a schedule of shout-outs.
Last weekend, the Space Cat team met up for our first meeting of 2022. Fuelled by delicious coffee and cake, we reacquainted ourselves with the progress we had made before we had to halt production and we developed a flight plan for the rest of the year.
It's been exactly a month since we opened the submission window for our second anthology and started accepting submissions based on the theme of 'Aliens & Otherness'. To mark the date, we wanted to discuss the theme a bit more and to catch those of you not on our mailing list up on our news.
Submissions to our second anthology are now OPEN! As many of you may have seen, we released the theme and submission window dates a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/SpaceCatPress/status/1350492033765535746 But we deliberately didn't go into more detail about what 'Alien & Otherness' meant because we wanted to give you all time to interpret it yourself before … Continue reading Theme Breakdown!
As we hunker down into the long dark of an English winter, it’s the perfect time to review a book that broke my reading drought last time round. There was something about the first lockdown that froze my brain. Its numb misery stopped me from drawing sustenance from a lifelong reading habit. Then months later, I got my hands on an ARC of HUMAN RESOURCES, a psychological thriller set in the icebound continent of Antarctica. A masterly sequel to Robin Trigg’s debut novel, NIGHT SHIFT, it blends urban sci-fi with a crime story’s breathless suspense, all set in the world’s most unforgiving landscape. Just the kind of winter’s tale to thaw out my imagination from its Covid induced cold-storage. You might consider stowing it in your own bunker for the months ahead.
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