Bringing the Search for Life in the Universe Down to Earth
I am an astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. Currently, I am a private STEM coach based in NYC; previously, I was a researcher at University of Washington. My first book, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS, comes out from Princeton University Press in Summer 2026.
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS: HOW THE DRAKE EQUATION REVEALS THE ODDS OF LIFE IN THE COSMOS
Coming via Princeton University Press to shelves near you Summer 2026!
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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