Ceridwen Dovey in conversation with Dr Alice Gorman- online event
Event description
ABOUT THE EVENT:
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals.
‘Ceridwen Dovey has a rare, wild genius. The stories in Only the Astronauts are extraordinary, funny, delightful and moving. Dovey sees tenderly what it is to be human – from a perspective that is out-of-this-world imaginative.’ Anna Funder
Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made objects tell their tales, making real history sweeter and stranger.
Enjoy our complimentary online author event when Ceridwen Dovey is in conversation with Dr Alice Gorman, exclusive to Roaring Stories.
Pre-order your copy of Only the Astronauts from Roaring Stories now.
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ONLINE DETAILS
The link to the online conversation will be sent to ticket holders on the 8th May.
Please note this is a pre-recorded conversation, which ticket holders can watch at their leisure.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals.
‘Ceridwen Dovey has a rare, wild genius. The stories in Only the Astronauts are extraordinary, funny, delightful and moving. Dovey sees tenderly what it is to be human – from a perspective that is out-of-this-world imaginative.’ Anna Funder
Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, awaiting deorbit and burial in a spacecraft cemetery beneath the ocean, farewells its last astronauts. A team of tamponauts sets off on a perilous mission to Mars inspired by the courage of their predecessors. The Voyager 1 space probe – carrying its precious Golden Record – is captured by Oortians near the edge of the solar system and drawn into their baroque, glimmering rituals.
By turns joyous and mournful, these object-astronauts are not high priests of the universe but something a little . . . weirder. From their inverted perspectives, they observe humans both intimately and from a great distance, bearing witness to a civilisation unable to live up to its own ideals. And yet each still finds in our planet – in their humans – something worthy of love.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ceridwen Dovey is a writer based in Sydney. She’s the author of several acclaimed works of fiction (Blood Kin, Only the Animals, In the Garden of the Fugitives, Life After Truth, Once More With Feeling) and non-fiction (On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers and Inner Worlds Outer Spaces: The Working Lives of Others). Her non-fiction essays have been published by newyorker.com, the Smithsonian Magazine, WIRED, Vogue, the Monthly and Alexander, among many others. She’s the recipient of an Australian Museum Eureka Award, and the 2020 & 2021 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for science writing. Her latest book is Mothertongues, a work of literary fiction co-authored with Eliza Bell, and including original songs by Australian songwriter Keppie Coutts.
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dr Alice Gorman is a space archaeologist and author of the award-winning book Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future. She is also a heritage consultant with over 30 years’ experience working with Indigenous communities in Australia. Gorman is a Vice-Chair of the Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities, and a Fellow of the Outer Space Institute. Asteroid 551014 Gorman is named after her.
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This event is presented by Roaring Stories Bookshop Balmain and Penguin Books Australia.
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