Popular presentations:
- Hidden Figures: the Women Pioneers of Space Science and Science Fiction
- What Science Fiction got Wrong…and Right! (and how you make the future)
- Strange New Worlds: How we discovered the planets beyond our solar system, and the exotic secrets they hold
- White suit, Red suit: the American and Soviet human spaceflight programs, 1958-1969
- Before Sputnik: the Space Race before 1957
- Unveiling the planet of love: interplanetary probes to Venus
- The first giant leap: robots to the Moon–Pioneers, Rangers, and Lunas
- The Hell Up There: the discovery and importance of the Van Allen Belts
- Better than Dune (or you can trust science fiction over 30!) — the best SFF of the ’50s and ’60s
- Beyond Star Trek: astrobiology in the 1960s
2024
October 22, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – The first giant leap (part 2): Stepping Stones to the Moon — Apollo and Soyuz
September 24, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – The first giant leap (part 1): Stepping Stones to the Moon — Mercury and Vostok
August 27, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – The first giant leap (part 2): Robots to the Moon–Pioneers, Rangers, and Lunas
July 23, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – The first giant leap (part 1): Robots to the Moon–Pioneers, Rangers, and Lunas
May 28, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – Better than Dune (or you can trust science fiction over 30!) — the best SFF of the ’50s and ’60s
May 6, 2024 | Brookdale Senior Community, Vista, CA – The Women Pioneers of Space Science
April 23, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – The Hell Up There: the discovery and importance of the Van Allen Belts
April 20, 2024 | Fangaea, San Diego, CA – Featured Guest
April 10, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – What Science Fiction got wrong…and right—(and how you make the future) Part 2
March 26, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – What Science Fiction got wrong…and right—(and how you make the future)
March 15-17, 2024 | Escapade, Los Angeles, CA – Panelist
March 5, 2024 | California State University, San Marcos, CA – The First Space Race: 1945 – 1957
February 27, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – The Women Pioneers of Space Science
February 21, 2024 | California State University, San Marcos, CA – What Science Fiction got wrong…and right—doomsday predictions of the past and present
January 16, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – Strange New Worlds: Exoplanets
January 2, 2024 | Carlsbad by the Sea – Strange New Worlds: our Solar System
2023
November 18-19, 2023 | Anime Con, San Diego, CA – Panelist
November 15, 2023 | California State University, San Marcos, CA – Strange New Worlds: How we Discovered the Planets Beyond
our Solar System, and the Exotic Secrets They Hold
October 14, 2023 | Animeland, Escondido, CA – Performer
September 20, 2023 | California State University, San Marcos, CA – Women of Space; Women of Science Fiction: The pivotal
Hidden Figures of the mid-20th Century
September 1-4, 2023 | Cokocon, Tempe, AZ – Guest
July 1-4, 2023 | Baycon, San Mateo, CA – Featured Guest
June 24, 2023 | North Park Book Fair 2023, San Diego, CA – Exhibitor
June 3, 2023 | Once Upon a Book Fair 2023, Escondido, CA – Exhibitor
May 16, 2023 | O’Farrell Charter High School Student Networking Event, San Diego
April 29, 2023 | Fangaea, San Diego, CA – Featured Guest
April 11, 2023 | California State University, San Marcos, CA – The First Giant Leap: Pioneer and Ranger
March 8, 2023 | California State University, San Marcos, CA – Stepping stones to the Moon: Mercury and Gemini
March 3-5, 2023 | Escapade, Los Angeles, CA – Panelist
February 25, 2023 | Black Nerds Expo, Mira Costa, CA – Exhibitor
January 27, 2023 | San Diego Library – Local Author Showcase
2022
October 3, 2022 | Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater, San Diego – Stepping stone to the Moon: Project Gemini
September 1-5, 2022 | Worldcon, Chicago – Panels on space history, publishing, and classic SFF & anime
July 1-4, 2022 | Baycon, San Mateo – Guest
May 17th, 2022 | AbSciCon 2022, Atlanta – Life is Groovy: Astrobiology in the 1960s
2021
October 26th, 2021 | Georgia Tech, Atlanta – What Science Fiction Got Wrong…and Right! (and how you make the future)
2020
December 9th, 2020 | Worldbuilders, Minnesota – Galactic Journey Telethon: A Time Traveling Fundraiser
June 8th, 2020 | Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater, San Diego – The women who pioneered space
April 17th, 2020 | Space Cowboy Stage, Joshua Tree, CA – What Science Fiction Got Wrong…and Right! (and how you make the future)
February 19th, 2020 | Gloria McClellan Senior Center, Vista, CA – Apollo: How we got to the Moon, and what happened after
February 7th, 2020 | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – Unveiling the planet of love: Mariner 2’s flight to Venus
2019
December 14th | Borrego Library – The Women who pioneered space
December 6th | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – The first giant leap — Ranger to the Moon
December 5th | Vista Library – What Science Fiction Got Wrong…and Right! (and how you make the future)
November 10th | Space Cowboy Stage, Joshua Tree, CA – The Women who pioneered space
September 7th | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – Science in the Zone: The Twilight Zone and Science Fiction
July 13th | San Diego County Library, Rancho San Diego – Apollo: How we got to the Moon, and what happened after
June 7th | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – The hell up there: the discovery of the Van Allen Belts
May 16th | Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater, San Diego – Exploring space in a Tin Can: How Mercury and Vostok opened up the universe forever
March 3rd | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – The Women who pioneered space
2018
December 7th | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – John F. Kennedy: An administrative legacy
September 7th | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – What Science Fiction Got Wrong…and Right! (and how you make the future)
August 17th | Worldcon (San Jose, CA) – Come Time Travel with Me: Science fiction in the Silver Age (1950-1963)
June 22nd | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – The Mercury Seven
March 2nd | Wavelength Science Friday, Vista, CA – An Introduction to Time Travel: Galactic Journey to the early 1960s
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