The Story

Chief Engineer’s Mate Maria Sanchez Ochoa is trapped on the ISS Montserrat, a severely damaged cargo ship drifting further away from the solar system and her only chance at getting help is through a 140 character text-based system status messaging system.

Calling Home originally appeared as a Twitter/Plurk science-fiction story.  It used multiple Twitter and Plurk accounts and each character spoke to each other only in dialogue.  The graphic novel will also be posted to Twitter and Plurk.  To find out more about how the story came into being, please visit the author’s blog.

The Author

R. Alexander Spoerer, a graduate of Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction program, is a science fiction and fantasy writer caught in a desperate struggle between the online and physical realms.

When not trying to save the world from the apocalypse, or a shortage of snack cakes, he works as a technical writer, infotech person, and biometrics maven. He aspires one day to to make the jump to full time writer, or zombie hunter.

In the mean time, he spends his time with his wife, two precocious boxers, a slew of video game machines, and the ever persistent search for the perfect cup of coffee. And yes, he is available for parties.

The Artist

To keep her sanity in a city like Denver, Leila del Duca does art as much as possible. She hopes that someday, someone will pay her to draw and ink comics. And pay her a comfortable sum to do it! In the mean time, she will continue arting, studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, knitting, gardening (once the weather permits), and hanging out with her boyfriend and his pup.