11 - Nicole Valentine - Contact & Arrival

In this episode, I chat with debut author and sci-fi enthusiast Nicole Valentine. We talk time travel and grief; trees with doorknobs; the Enola Gay; Nicole’s first person experiences with both the wage gap AND Sally Ride; civic duty; Vermont towns with marble sidewalks; and theoretical physics. Also at one point I forget that Tom Skerrit’s call sign in Top Gun is Viper. Then we take a meandering dive into two of our sci-fi faves—Contact and Arrival.