What we modified an astronaut's DNA to withstand space?

Short and fiery Jade Vitale doesn’t want to give up her job as full-time astronaut, in a...

NK Goddard
NK Goddard

NK Goddard doesn’t just write science fiction — she channels it.From the moment Star Trek sparked her imagination and classics like Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land expanded her sense of reality, NK knew that great stories do more than entertain — they awaken. They invite readers to question what’s possible, explore what’s hidden, and connect to something larger than life. Today, NK brings that same spirit to her writing — blending hard science, deep metaphysical insight, and cinematic storytelling. Whether navigating alien diplomacy or inner evolution, her stories challenge readers to consider not only the fate of humanity, but the state of their own consciousness.

NK’s creative process is grounded in two guiding principles: follow the muse with fearless originality — and then do the hard work to make it real. This means crafting ideas that are daring and visionary, then grounding them in deep research and realism. For Book Two of her Astronaut Vitale series, for example, she spent over six weeks studying the effects of radiation on skin — ensuring that every fictional element could stand on a foundation of scientific possibility.

Her breakout novel, The Great Experiment, is the first in the Astronaut Vitale series — a bold fusion of space exploration, psychic emergence, and soul-level transformation. In a world teetering between extinction and awakening, Vitale becomes both symbol and catalyst — asking the question, What if the next leap in evolution isn’t technological, but spiritual?

NK’s upcoming projects continue to stretch boundaries. A second novel, set along California’s San Andreas Fault and infused with Hawaiian Earth spirit lore, brings seismic science and spiritual ecology together in a YA-adjacent adventure filled with reverence and resonance.

Though her stories reach beyond the stars, NK remains deeply grounded in the Earth. When not writing, she explores the wilderness, researches energy systems and wellness sciences, and listens quietly for the next whisper of the muse. Her quiet trails, and the unseen layers of the natural world all fuel her storytelling from the inside out.

With each book, NK Goddard invites readers into a reality where science and soul, curiosity and consciousness, and truth and myth collide — not to confuse, but to illuminate.

If you're ready to explore worlds that feel as real as your own dreams — where imagination meets insight — you're ready for the journey.

 

Books

Astronaut Vitale

The Great Experiment Part 1

What we modified an astronaut's DNA to withstand space?

Short and fiery Jade Vitale doesn’t want to give up her job as full-time astronaut, in a near future where the human race has finally begun colonizing the solar system. So when Vitale discovers that she’s absorbed too much radiation to continue her job, she volunteers for an experimental...

Science Fiction Fantasy 5 Short Stories

Science Fiction Fantasy, 5 short stores. ALSO Known as My Best 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories are about: Spiritual life after death (positive and not scary), hybrid humans and mini-panthers, the first hydrogen powered inter-stellar space captain and life on other planets involving good and care surmounting evil and destruction.

Blog

Astronaut Vitalie is a thought experiment. A thought experiment, as defined by Oxford Languages, is “an assignment carried out only in the imagination.”

When I asked my rocket-scientist father—now in his 90s—what speculative fiction book I should write next, he responded, “How are humans going to survive in space?”

I knew exactly what he meant. Between radiation, the absence of gravity, the lack of oxygen, and the sheer scarcity of everything that nurtures the human form, we remain...

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