New Release

Read Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films will Promote Mars Colonization Reality by H Raven Rose (originally presented at The 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention in 2018 in Pasadena, CA) in the newly released The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. From Head of Zeus publishing, edited by Dr Stuart Clark, the work includes one hundred pieces of writing, both fact and fiction, about the Red Planet. Including classic writers of science fiction – H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Arthur C. Clarke, Pamela Sargent, and Roger Zelazny – as well as distinguished experts in astronomy, astrobiology and aerospace engineering; the work spans Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors – Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Turzillo – to trail-blazing journalists and science communicators; included works are as diverse from Andy Weir’s fiction work The Martian to Elon Musk’s SpaceX programme, The Book of Mars is an extraordinary overview both of the Red Planet and of the way scientific investigation diffuses into modern culture. Buy the book wherever fine books are sold.

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Encounter

Two extraterrestrials transform the consciousness of a depressed male human and accidentally set earth up for total annihilation.

Mr Psychic

George’s ‘perfectly good life’ falls to pieces when he’s fired then discovers that sometimes you have to lose it all to find everything.

Land of Change

Combining fact, fiction and visual art in a tapestry of text and imagery, the anthology links activism, authorship and artistic expression.

IP Lit Mag

The poem ’23 Species from 19 States lost to extinction’ published in Winter 2022 In Parentheses Literary Magazine (V 7, Issue 32).

About the Author

H Raven Rose Writer Director film reel.

Award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and author H Raven Rose bleeds ink; her poem painted in film–Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gysegredig, Cymru Sanctaidd–won the 2021 Wales International Film Festival Illustrated Poem Jury’s Award Special Prize. In 2018, her Super 8 short film Sleep Disturbance, shot in Bristol, was screened at The Cube Microplex, UK. An excerpt of the play version of Sleep Disturbance was staged as readings at the Taliesin Create Space. Recent publications include ‘Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films will Promote Mars Colonization Reality’ published in the newly released ‘The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction’, edited by Dr Stuart Clark, from Head of Zeus publishing (HoZ) and Apollo press (a fabulous tome nearly 900 pages in hardback) which covers the planet Mars from myth to Musk, astrology to astronomy, alongside classic writers of science fiction – Stanley G Weinbaum, Arthur C Clarke, H G Wells, Ray Bradbury, Pamela Sargent, Roger Zelazny, distinguished experts in astronomy, astrobiology and aerospace engineering, and others (2022). Recent works include an ecofeminist ecopoem published in ‘Land of Change: Stories of Struggle and Solidarity from Wales,’ a stellar landmark anthology from Wales. Her play The Park at Night, adapted into the suspense novella Dark Eros, was staged as readings in Los Angeles, and one starred Jessica Biel in the lead role of Leila. Additional publications include creative nonfiction, Waking up Wild and Snow, published in Tofu Ink Arts Press, and an ecopoem, ’23 Species from 19 States lost to extinction’, published in the Winter 2022 edition of In Parentheses. She is a Screenwriting Research Network and Women in Film LA member. Her current WIP film is By Cadair Idris. A bi-lingual Welsh and English animated short filmed in 2022, Footage to inspire the animation for By Cadair Idris was shot on Cader Idris in Meirionnydd in Snowdonia, Wales, UK, animated in London, and inspired by a poetry fragment of Dylan Thomas and the text The Giants of Wales and Their Dwellings, ca. 1600. Peniarth MS 118 f.829-837, by Siôn Dafydd Rhys, and will soon be in post-production.

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