One of the pens behind the press
Kestrel Hara
Sci-Fi · Fantasy · The night sky, with and without telescopes
Kestrel maps places that do not exist yet and skies that very much do. Equally at home plotting a lighthouse on Titan and teaching you to find Orion from a back porch, Kestrel writes wonder with its feet on the ground. Rumoured to draft chapters only on clear nights.
15 books in print · 13 journal pieces
Books by Kestrel Hara
The Wintering Fleet
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Long Experiment
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Slow Post
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Long Listening
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Winter Gardeners
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Groundfall
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Far Side of Quiet
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Carried Hours
A novel of the city of Perigi
The Patience of Light
A Novel of First Contact
Made of Starlight
How the Universe Built You, One Atom at a Time
The Whole Sky
A Year of Stargazing on the Equator
Thirteen Moons
A Sky Watcher's Year, One Full Moon at a Time
Backyard Astronomy Without a Telescope
Everything the Night Sky Will Show You for Free
The Last Lighthouse on Titan
On Saturn's largest moon, one keeper tends a light no ship has needed for forty years
The Cartographer's Debt
A mapmaker in old Malacca owes a debt that can only be repaid in places nobody has drawn yet
Kestrel Hara in the journal
- The things the night sky only shows the patient eye
- Orionid meteor shower 2026: how to see Halley's Comet dust
- The Moon is best when it is not full
- Learning the sky with nothing but your eyes
- SpaceX reached orbit this week. Look up anyway.
- Saturn is about to be the brightest thing you are not looking at
- A reader asks whether the stars are still there
- The moon in the middle of the afternoon
- A reader in a bright city asks if there is any point
- A short inventory of the early dark
- The night the street went dark
- What the ice was holding