Bringing the Search for Life in the Universe Down to Earth
I am an astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. I teach at Columbia University and in the CUNY system. My debut non-fiction, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS, is now available via Princeton University Press.
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS: HOW THE DRAKE EQUATION REVEALS THE ODDS OF LIFE IN THE COSMOS
Published via Princeton University Press on August 4, 2026!
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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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