Venue Shows

The Journey makes history come alive to audiences of all ages with a unique blend of humor and knowledge with presentations like:

  • Predictions of Future Past: What science fiction got wrong…and right (and how you make the future)
  • Life is groovy: Astrobiology in the 1960s
  • The Women Pioneers of Space Science
  • The unsung women story-spinners of science fiction's Silver Age
  • Humanity's first steps into space: Mercury and Vostok
  • The Bridge: Gemini into orbit
  • Apollo: How we got to the Moon, and what happened after
  • The First Giant Leap: Project Ranger
  • The Hell up There: Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts
  • Piercing the Veil: Mariner 2 meets the Planet of Love
  • The long road to Star Trek: literary science fiction come to life
  • The Twilight Zone: A literary and science fiction masterpiece
  • JFK: A legislative legacy

At conventions, bookstores, museums, libraries, and schools, The Journey offers a unique perspective on history and technology, spotlighting the overlooked and making science accessible to the public.  If you'd like us to open up a three-dimensional portal through time for your students/patrons, send us an invitation


Bookstore Shows

at Wildman's Books, an all Hugo Finalist show with Tom Purdom, Laura Weyr, and Lorelei Marcus, 6-12-21

at Read it Again Books, Suwanee, GA, 7-14-20

at Read it Again Books, Suwanee, GA, 6-3-20

at Rediscovered Bookstore, Boise, ID, 6-2-20

At Book Ballast Co., Bremerton, WA, 5-19-20

Tubby and Coo's, New Orleans, LA, 5-14-20

At the Book Worm, Camarillo, CA, 5-7-20

At the Book Bungalow with David Farland, St. George, UT, 5-6-20

At Front Street Books, Alpine, TX, 4-22-20


Venue Shows

"The Mercury Seven"


Wavelength Brewing Co., Vista, 8pm June 22, 2018


"JFK: A Legislative Legacy"

Wavelength Brewing Co., Vista, 8pm, December 7, 2018


"The Women Pioneers of Space Science"

Wavelength Brewing Co., Vista, 8pm, March 1, 2019


"The Hell up There — The Van Allen Radiation Belts"

Nerd Nite International, Sep. 6, 2020

Wavelength Brewing Co., Vista, 8pm, June 7, 2019


"Apollo: How we got to the Moon, and what happened after"

The San Diego County Library, Rancho San Diego Branch, 2:30pm, July 13, 2019


"What Science Fiction got wrong…and right! (and how you make the future)"

Vista Library, December 5, 2019

Space Cowboy Books (virtual), April 17, 2020


"The first Giant Leap"

Wavelength Brewing Co., Vista, 8pm, December 6, 2019


Panel Samples


WorldCon, San Jose, 1pm August 17,2018

WhoCon, San Diego, 2pm, October 21, 2018

LosCon, Los Angeles, 2:30 p.m., November 24, 2018

San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, March 8, 2019 7:00 PM


Baycon, May 25, 2019, 5:30 PM

Fangaea, San Diego, September 14, 2019 12:00PM

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