2021 award eligibility post
It’s that time of the year again. You know, the one when 22,000 people a day test covid-positive in a 10-million country that does not do enough testing a...
Category: Nonfiction
Life Beyond Us has funded!
I’m happy to announce that Life Beyond Us, the anthology of astrobiology-themed SF stories accompanied by science essays we’re preparing at the Euro...
2020 awards eligibility
‘Tis the season again… Below is a list of my award-eligible works published this year. Adapted from my Twitter thread. Short stories This year we st...
The Curtain Falls, The Show Must End
My novelette “The Curtain Falls, The Show Must End” has just appeared in Samovar in both the Czech original and the English translation. It’s ...
Strangest of All: a new astrobiological anthology
Science fiction can be a great way to teach science in a fun way… so we thought not only in the European Astrobiology Institute, and created an e-book ant...
2019 eligibility post
Better late than never: Here’s what I published this year (in English or Anglophone-relevant; not counting my Czech publications), so that you can read it...
2017: What a year!
It’s finally here: 2018. Many people seemed very eager for 2017 to end, and I’m not surprised, though you can’t cheat a calendar (unless you’re a pope some cent...
2017: Swedish Odyssey AKA Astrobiology in Sweden
A yearly meeting of the Astrobiology Centre of the Stockholm University took place this month in Tällberg. Its sessions covered topics ranging from habitability...
Space is a good place for countries to work together
Few people have a career record as impressive as Leroy Chiao: He’s an astronaut who flew three Space Shuttle missions, was the commander of ISS’ Expedition 10, ...
Making ESA ready for the future
At the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, I had the honor of being among the students awarded with ESA’s Student Sponsorship to attend the con...
