How we got here

I’ve spent my career sharing breakthroughs in science and technology, or training researchers and policymakers to do the same.

Every few weeks or so, for much of my life, I would get a master class on some new discovery, then I’d spend months finding ways to inspire the public and the press about it – from the discovery of new dinosaurs to the hunt for extrasolar planets, from gasoline made from plants to microsensors that protected the Liberty Bell.

Then, in 2025, all of that faded away. I had to leave a career as a media officer for the U.S. National Science Foundation and find some other path. Not many were open, particularly in the small city in which I live. So I pivoted.

I pulled out my Retirement Project, a science fiction novel I’d started in 2005, and began to write. Job opportunities remained scarce, so the novel became the job.

As I learned more about my characters and themes, I realized how much they’d been shaped by sparks from my career, from all that time hanging out with scientists and engineers. As I polished the text and prepared to launch, I also realized how much of the fantasy and fiction of science has been lost to observation and analysis.

Great science is built upon process and precision, but once we know a little more about the world, why stop there?

Someday, in Science is my platform for fusing creativity back onto clarity, getting our minds to wander a bit, and seeing where it leads.

The name is meant to be a little wistful – to get us science-fiction authors thinking a bit about Things to Come, but also to help everyone find a little more context for science and how we’re affected by it, and to wrap it more closely to the realms of literature, history, and art.

As the conversation evolves, I’ll be releasing pieces of the book, then the book itself, and then expanding into wherever other stories and experiences take me – always with a thread of science running through it, and always with an eye toward new insights.