Zach Powers is the author of Gravity Changes, which won the BOA Short Fiction Prize, and his work has appeared in such places as American Short Fiction, Black Warrior Review, The Conium Review, and the Tin Houseblog. First Cosmic Velocity is his first novel.
Advance Praise for FIRST COSMIC VELOCITY I ate this right up. Boldy imagined and deeply human, Zach Powers' re-creation of the Russian space program is a story that will entertain you, and then haunt you. --Michael Poore, author of Reincarnation Blues Praise for Zach Powers A wonderfully vertiginous, through-the-looking-glass story collection, packed with Powers's one-of-a-kind humor and insight. With his extraordinary imagination and vitalizing prose, Powers can make anything live, and does. He is fluently conversant with the Devil, the dead, children, animals, astronauts, and newlyweds and this is just a partial roster of the wild crew aboard this ship. Goofy and profound, lyrical and exhilarating, Gravity Changes is a thrilling, rocket-fueled debut. --Karen Russell