Bringing the SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE Down to Earth
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I AM AN ASTROBIOLOGIST, EDUCATOR, AND AUTHOR OF FICTION AND NON-FICTION. I RECEIVED MY B. SCI IN ASTROPHYSICS FROM FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY IN 2015 AND MY PHD IN PHYSICS FROM NOTRE DAME IN 2020. CURRENTLY, I AM FACULTY AT TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE; PREVIOUSLY, I WAS A POSTDOC AT U. MICHIGAN AND U. WASHINGTON.I AM ALSO A BOARD MEMBER OF THE NEUROVERSE INITIATIVE, A NON-PROFIT DEDICATED TO NEUROINCLUSIVITY IN THE SPACE SCIENCES.
LIFE IN SEVEN NUMBERS: THE BIZARRE AND BEAUTIFUL PATH FROM STARDUST TO STARSHIPS
Coming via Princeton University Press to shelves near you mid-late 2025.
MY PROFILE IN NATURE
Through golden hive minds, dreaming androids and interstellar alien worlds, astrobiologist and speculative science-fiction author Seven Rasmussen explores humanity within the unfamiliar and strange. Rasmussen writes short stories that often feature space and the distant future — topics that her work as an astrobiologist at Tacoma Community College in Washington often touches on.
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you dream of the hive (clarkesworld Jan 2024)
“When they recovered your body, you started to scream. The retrieval team, nonplussed, shoved you in a pod, slammed the sound shutters, and peeled off before the siren song of the Hive could claim another ship.”
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