The Impossible Resurrection of Grief is the story of marine biologist Ruby and The Grief, an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby’s friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead. The Tasmanian tiger, brought back from extinction in an isolated facility, is only the first… but rebirth is not always biological, and it comes with a price. As a scientist, Ruby resists the Grief by focusing her research on resilient jellyfish, but she can’t avoid choosing which side she’s on. Struggling with the loss of her friend and the impending loss of her marriage, can Ruby fight against the dead and the forces behind them when doing so risks her home, her life, and the entire biosphere?

To celebrate the recent release of her new book, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief,

Author Octavia Cade was so kind as to share a list of super fun science facts with us!

1. The lion's mane jellyfish can have tentacles longer than a blue whale.

2. The blue blubber jellyfish has hundreds of mouths.

3. Jellyfish born in space develop vertigo on Earth.

4. The purple people eater jellyfish doesn't eat people.

5. The beroid comb jellyfish has no tentacles and hundreds of teeth.

6. The lion's mane jellyfish can have over 1000 tentacles.

7. Jellyfish are older than dinosaurs!

8. Jellyfish are brainless and heartless.

9. Upside-down jellyfish may be brainless, but they still need to sleep.

10. The warty comb jellyfish eats its own larvae to survive winter.

11. The immortal jellyfish may have a very accurate name.

12. Jellyfish can still sting you when they're dead.

13. More jellyfish than humans have been to space.

14. The alarm jellyfish uses bioluminescence to light up its attackers so that bigger fish will eat them.

15. I have never eaten vanilla and jellyfish ice-cream. Would you?

16. Nomura's jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg!

17. Cannonball jellyfish form symbiotic relationships with young spider crabs.

If you haven’t got your hands on a copy of this sci-fi eco-horror book, what are you waiting for?

Get yourself a signed copy via Stelliform Press to add to your Summer Reading TBR.