Former Reuter’s Journalist Pens Award-Winning,
Critically-Acclaimed, Space-Travel Sci-Fi Thrillers
Winner Best New Sci-Fi Series BookFest Awards, 2024
Distinguished Favorite,
Independent Press Awards,
2025
Cygnus Award Finalist, 2025
Pacific Book Awards, Best
Sci-fi (Galactic Empires), 2025
IBPA Bill Fisher Award, 2025
Silver Winner
A profound and full-bodied futuristic
story of love, technology, and infinite outer space."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Clift merges the vastness of space with the intimate, harrowing struggles of motherhood,
probing the ethical limits of science and the steep cost of survival in his gripping sci-fi tale."
—The Prairies Book Review
"Works toward a breathless conclusion... Born in Space is a lush science fiction allegory for the
strength of a mother's love and the unbreakable bonds of family.”
—Foreword Clarion Review
The future of space could involve multi-species colonization wars, an evolved human species
born beyond Earth, encroaching AI, disruptive use of robots and techn9ology, and families
traveling galaxies. These are just some of the elements envisioned in a new science-fiction series
set just 40-80 years into the future, written by a former journalist of 20 years, Jermey Clift.
His books – Born in Space and Space Vault -- have been praised heavily for their mesmerizing
world-building, high-impact action, deep character development, philosophical explorations, and
most of all, a realistic portrayal of what life in space could look like from the detailed eye of a
reporter who has covered war zones, natural disasters, and economic crises. Clift has lived in
China, Egypt, Great Britain, India, France, Philippines, Washington DC, and elsewhere. From his
international experiences he was able to imagine universal struggles out in deep space.
In an interview, Clift is available to discuss the following:
What next ye3ar’s planned Moon mission could actually be leading us.
What life could be like for the first children (artificially conceived) born in space.
Why he foresees an endangered Earth forcing humans to expand into space in search of
new resources and habitats.
How he portrays families living in space.
How his experience working at Reuter’s and the International Monetary Fund inspired
and shaped his books.
The role of AI in space exploration.
Why space colonization is coming but ethical dilemmas will persist.
How he writes of the power of maternal love in the face of adversity.
Why he explores themes of sacrifice, romance, and redemption against the backdrop of
interstellar politics and corporate greed.
Why he writes strong female characters in a genre that’s historically male-dominated.
Clift’s series inserts a sense of realism in a speculative world, making his books both exciting
and believable. He sees science-fiction as not so much predicting the future, but as away to
launch into a discussion of the future and where we, as a nation and world, are heading. Society
and technology are both competing and co-operating to forge our future.
Jeremy Clift
Biography
Jeremy Clift is a science fiction author and former journalist. His first work of fiction, “Born in
Space” is part of his Sci-Fi Galaxy
series of novels built around the
growth of orbiting space habitats
and the exploitation of asteroids.
The sequel, "Space Vault: The Seed
Eclipse" was published in 2025.
“Born in Space” examines what life
might be like for the first children
born off Earth. “How would they
feel? Would they have a terrible
craving to return “home”? Or are
they really an extraterrestrial, a
space being? Still a humanoid but
having none of the experiences of
the Earth.” The subsequent book
examines identity in an age of
genetic engineering. Who owns
Life?
A fan of Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mary
Robinette Kowal, Cixin Liu, and
Andy Weir, he is keenly interested in how space exploration will change humanity over the next
200 years. Clift says that solving how babies get born in reduced or zero gravity is one of the key
issues for humanity if we want to populate space habitats and other planets. Most people will not
want to emigrate to Mars. But maybe robots will. And by then, they will probably be far more
intelligent than humans. “Maybe what will be “born” is some sort of hybrid that mixes the
emotions of humans with the resilience and sturdiness of artificial beings.”
A former non-fiction Publisher at an international organization, he is a communications
consultant and writing coach who has also worked in magazines and as an international news
correspondent for Reuters. A graduate of the London School of Economics and George
Washington University, he has lived in a variety of capitals and cities around the world, including
Beijing, Bombay, Cairo, New Delhi, Jakarta, London, Manila, Paris, and Washington DC.
He has published profiles and interviews with several leading economists, including Nobel Prize
winners Vernon Smith and Daniel Kahneman, as well as Olivier Blanchard, Avinash Dixit, Allan
Meltzer, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Mario Monti, Lucrezia Reichlin, and Hernando de Soto. He has
also edited collections of work on Health and Development and Financial Globalization, as well
as books on VAT, Big Government, Japan, Risk and Recessions. He resides in Charlotte, NC.






