'Ceridwen Dovey is a wonderful nonfiction writer, often – but not always – on scientific themes and increasingly on space. She has written repeatedly for The New Yorker, including a 2018 piece titled “Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space”. In 2021, she won the Bragg Prize for science writing, for the second consecutive year, with “Everlasting free-fall”, a long and gripping piece about the increasing number of satellites.' (Introduction)
'Award-winning Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer’s debut novel, The End and Everything Before It, is inflected with whimsy and curiosity, characteristics the author has honed through his pedigree in writing children’s theatre. Kruckemeyer’s fable-like tale blooms on an unnamed island. We follow the island’s repeating seasons, learn its ecosystem and trace the interconnections between generations of the island’s citizens which, like a murmuration of birds, is “all those brains kindred – an infinite number, and at the same time a singularity”.' (Introduction)
