Russell on campus to talk about “Caretaker”

Imagine that you and your family are immigrating to a new colony in a distant galaxy. You and hundreds of migrants are safely tucked into a stasis chamber to peacefully slumber away the fifty-year space journey. Suddenly you are awakened, mid-flight. Everyone else is still asleep and you have only a computer to talk to–for fifty years. Then you discover the ship is off course.
This is the premise for the hit science fiction novel, Caretaker, written by Josi Russell, a professor of English at USU Eastern’s Blanding campus. Russell will be visiting the Price campus on Thursday, March 24. She will discuss Caretaker and its just-published sequel, Guardians at the USUE Library at 6 p.m.
Josi Russell’s science fiction novels explore familiar human relationships in unfamiliar contexts. She lives in the alien landscape of the high desert American Southwest with her family and a giant tortoise named Caesar. Russell is captivated by the fields of linguistics, mathematics and medicine, by the vast unknown beyond our atmosphere, and by the whole adventure of being human.The event is free and open to the community. Refreshments will be served.