Cast of Wonders 485: Simons, Far and NearAlso, Episode 518! A Staff Pick for 2022! Hosted by Editor Katherine Inskip!• Author:
Ana Gardner• Narrator:
Tanja Milojevic• Host, Episode 518:
Katherine Inskip• Host, Episode 485:
Amy Brennan• Audio Producer:
Jeremy Carter• Artist:
Alexis Goble"Simons, Far and Near" is a Cast of Wonders original.Click here to listen to Episode 518Click here to listen to Episode 485Content Warning: Character death; radiation sickness
Days after a solar hurricane fried Western Europe, nations across the world gathered their brightest grade-schoolers, and they launched us into space with promises of glory and cake.
Solar storms were worsening ahead of schedule, said government men in wrinkled suits, as they pulled us from our underground shelters and stuffed us into armored tanks. The exodus ships, forced to launch early, weren’t ready to sustain endless space travel. They’d need places to land, shelters for their thousands of passengers, far from our ever-deadlier sun.
And someone had to travel on ahead and build those shelters.Tags: Alexis Goble, Amy Brennan, Ana Gardner, colonisation, endurance, engineering, fairy tales, friendship, isolation, Jeremy Carter, Katherine Inskip, Kuiper Belt, Pluto, post-apocalypse, space travel, Staff Picks 2022, Tanja Milojevic, teen protagonist, young adult fiction