Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Conversation with Octavia Cade by Arley Sorg
New Zealand author Octavia Cade had always planned to be a scientist when she grew up. “But as much as I love science, scientific writing sucked all my enthusiasm out. It’s the worst. It’s boring and inaccessible and scientists have no right to whine about people misunderstanding science when they have done everything they can to keep them from it.” Cade studied botany as an undergrad, and “became fascinated with algae and the intertidal zone.” She earned her master’s in biology, looking at reproductive strategies of a native seagrass, and her PhD in science communication at the University of Otago, “the biggest scicomm center in the world . . . and it’s a fantastic place to study.”
Image: Ernest Wright/NASA/GSFC Scientific Visualisation Studio
“Come back, Sebastian. You are shaking. That is not a productive movement.” As Sebastian prepares to go work on the moon, he reviews his contract’s terms and conditions and wonders what his mother must think.
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The bus from Stella Maris Central Terminal to the moon launch site leaves twice daily. Sebastian could take a series of different other private bus lines there from his neighborhood and arrive either three hours early or twenty minutes late for either, which is just so perfectly useless it makes an excellent excuse for him to ask Yonatan for a ride.
(Titan Books US 978-1789094343, $15.95, 368pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 9, 2021)
Dark gothic fairy tale. Long ago the O’Malley family struck a deal with the mer: safety for their ships in return for a child of each generation. But after years of decline, the family has been unable to keep their side of the bargain.
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