{"id":1526,"date":"2020-09-11T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:39:17","slug":"uncharted-constellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/?p=1526","title":{"rendered":"Uncharted Constellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacecatpress.co.uk\/shopfront\/uncharted-constellations\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Uncharted-Constellations-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"Uncharted Constellations cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Uncharted-Constellations-1-200x300.png 200w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Uncharted-Constellations-1.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted that two of my sci-fi short stories are now available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacecatpress.co.uk\/shopfront\/uncharted-constellations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uncharted Constellations<\/a> anthology from Space Cat Press.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a description of the anthology:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In this space-themed anthology, twenty writers take the last Space Race as a launch pad to propel us far into the future.\u00a0<\/em>Uncharted Constellations<em>\u00a0crosses genres from dark science-fiction to lyrical poetry, via twists of flash fiction and fragments of memoir. And between the strangeness of space and the loneliness of long-distance missions, you will find the human heart refracted in a myriad of ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My stories are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Scattered Across the Stars<\/em> &#8211; a meteorite exerts a fascination over successive generations of scientists, leading them towards&#8230; <em>something<\/em> out there.<\/li>\n<li><em>Always Carry a Spare<\/em> &#8211; when travelling between the stars, to keep your ship in operating condition, make sure you RTFM, follow the correct procedures, and always, <em>always<\/em> carry a spare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The anthology is currently available as an ebook (in both epub and mobi format) from the Space Cat website, and for the first week (until 18th September 2020) is <a href=\"https:\/\/spacecatpress.co.uk\/shopfront\/special-offers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discounted to \u00a31<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paperbacks are currently on hold due to the ongoing global pandemic making face-to-face physical sales slightly problematic at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The anthology launch will be on Sunday 13th September 2020, between 4pm and 5pm, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCZ3dkBzFstkoYgVblo-kWHw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Cat Press YouTube<\/a> channel, which also features a variety of readings from the anthology. (Not me, though. You&#8217;re spared that particular horror.)<\/p>\n<p>You <em>can<\/em> read about some of the inspiration for my stories on the Space Cat Blog though. Let me transport you through space and time to Edinburgh, 1978, and a tale of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacecatpress.co.uk\/2020\/08\/31\/moon-mars-and-meteorites-guest-blog-j-k-fulton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moon, Mars, and meteorites<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted that two of my sci-fi short stories are now available in the Uncharted Constellations anthology from Space Cat Press. Here&#8217;s a description of the anthology: In this space-themed anthology, twenty writers take the last Space Race as a launch pad to propel us far into the future.\u00a0Uncharted Constellations\u00a0crosses genres from dark science-fiction to&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/?p=1526\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Two of my sci-fi short stories are now available in the Uncharted Constellations anthology from @SpaceCatPress","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Uncharted-Constellations-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37h7H-oC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}