posted 01-31-2020 02:32 PM               

How a disciple of Carl Sagan, an ex-motocross racer, a Texas Tea Party congressman, the world's worst typewriter saleswoman, California mountain people, and an anonymous NASA functionary went to war with Mars, repelled insurgents from Saturn, crossed swords with Washington, and hitched a ride on an Alabama moon rocket to send a space robot to Jupiter in search of the second Garden of Eden at the bottom of an alien ocean inside of an ice world called Europa (a true story).

• Hardcover: 352 pages
  
• Custom House (September 22, 2020)
  
• ISBN-10: 006265442X
  
• ISBN-13: 978-0062654427

My upcoming book, "The Mission," will be published in 2020 by Custom House, an imprint of HarperCollins. It is a work of creative nonfiction, and tells the story of a plucky group of scientists who have spent their lives convincing NASA to send a spaceship to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter.

posted 02-01-2020 07:41 AM               

Quoting Wikipedia, though there are numerous resources on this, including university and library guides.

Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as academic or technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact but is not written to entertain based on prose style.