It’s always pretty cool to write posts about my stories and books appearing in new and exciting places, but this one is special because I can now report that my fiction has made it to the frickin’ Moon. Literally.
I was privileged to be included in The Lunar Codex, a project by author and editor Samuel Peralta who collected a variety of fiction and art on flash drives and paid to send them up as part of the payload in various lunar missions.
Odysseus, the Nova-C lunar lander that successfully reached the surface of the Moon on February 22, 2024 contained, among other works, a copy of the Oceans anthology edited by Daniel Arthur Smith. It includes my Coffee Corps cycle story “The Hunt for the Vigilant” alongside works by Ken Liu, Caroline Yoachim, and others.
So, another weird and supremely cool achievement unlocked. It’s these sorts of things that make my writerly journey delightful.
NASA coverage of the Odysseus launch:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/intuitive-machines-launches-to-the-moon/
More details about The Lunar Codex:
https://www.lunarcodex.com/story
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