Welcome to a distant future full of possibilities where the enigmatic Floravans are humanity's
alien best friends and the gift of the quantum space drive allows starships to slip through
the veiled dimension they call the strange as they visit distant planets and stars.
Come along with the astral navigators and their Floravan counterparts as they explore the galaxy
and build friendships that will change the course of history. The strange is calling you.
Greetings, friend-shaped entities, and welcome to the first episode of the Strange Space Adventures
podcast. I'm Katie Silverwings, author of the award-winning Strange Space Adventures series
of optimistic science fiction stories. On this podcast, I'll be reading those stories to you
every week. My characters and I look forward to sharing their world with you.
The world of Strange Space is an optimistic future where anything is possible and people
are accepted for who they are. It's a cozy, welcoming place, really. At the time of these
stories, humanity has its collective act together for the most part. The stories my characters have
to tell center around themes of adventure, exploration, found family, friendship, and
finding one's place in the galaxy, whatever that might turn out to be. If you like cozy,
slice-of-life sci-fi with a side of hopepunk adventure and neat aliens, you're in the right
place. Every episode of this podcast will feature a segment from one of my Strange Space Adventures
books. There's several of them out now, including Feathered Friendship, Celadon, How Ocean Merlani
Stole Their Navigator, The Garden in the Darkness, Warmth and Darkness, Tales of the Navigators,
Volume 1, and On the Subject of Kittens and Mittens. If you're impatient to hear more of the
story, you can find links to get copies of all of my books, including the brand new Strange Space
Coloring book, in the episode description or by visiting my website www.KatieSilverwings.com.
There are lots of stories to tell from this little universe of mine and my characters are always
bringing me new ones. All of their stories are episodic and self-contained, so you can start at
any point you like on the shared timeline. As you read or listen to more stories,
my characters will reveal more of their lives and world to you.
Season 1 of the Strange Space Adventures podcast will be centered around the first novella I
published in the series, Feathered Friendship. This is the story of Bernadette, one of my all-time
favorite characters, who just happens to be a talking budgie, and her family. To give you a
taste of what's to come, here's the back of the book. "Something New is About to Hatch. Dr. Ariadne
Salzar-Newman is not a mad scientist. She is a scientist, a brilliant one at that, but she's
hardly mad. If one asks MSS Ventures staff psychologist and QSD engineer the Florivan Elder
Navy Irleeim, she's only amusingly eccentric with a bit more of a fascination with the strange than
is healthy for a human. That fascination has her once again working with the dangerous miasmas of
quantum space in hopes of making travel through that veiled dimension safer for human starships.
It's not particularly safe for a scientist for sure. Still, having taken Navy's apprentice under
her wing as a part-time assistant, she's safer than usual. Working with her is good for Cobalt
Mereday too, if only because her unique brand of oddity seems to be the only thing capable of
helping them. Even Dr. Salzar-Newman has no reason to suspect just how much of an effect this
particular project will have on her family and her protege, nor how far reaching the consequences
will be. Little Bernadette is not an ordinary budgerigar..." I'm so excited to finally be sharing
this story with you in podcast form. Feathered Friendship is dear to my heart as a story and I
look forward to hearing what y'all think of it. If you'd like to read ahead, it is available in
book form and ebook form already. The links for that are on my website. And if you'd like to
get access to other neat perks like the official strange space timeline and encyclopedia, all of my
free coloring pages and a few other cool things that are coming up this year, head on over to my
website www.katesilverwings.com and join the official strange space fan club. It's free to join.
All members of the fan club get to be among the first to hear about all of my upcoming projects.
For a small monthly donation, you can join one of the higher membership tiers where you can access
a full archive of all of my stories that have been put on my website and all sorts of other
shiny rewards. Thank you so much to my current fan club members for making this podcast possible,
especially my absolutely stellar astral navigator tier member Sharon T. Hinton.
Thank you all so much for listening to the strange space adventures podcast.
I can't wait to share more of my stories with you in the new year.
This is Katie Silverwings reminding you to stay shiny.
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