Bringing the SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE Down to Earth
I AM AN ASTROBIOLOGIST, EDUCATOR, AND AUTHOR OF FICTION AND NON-FICTION. CURRENTLY, I AM FACULTY AT TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE; PREVIOUSLY, I WAS A POSTDOC AT U. MICHIGAN AND U. WASHINGTON.MY FIRST BOOK, LIFE IN SEVEN NUMBERS, COMES OUT MID-LATE 2025.
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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