Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
If you are in the UK in June and you love speculative fiction, then this is a convention you might want to attend. The programme is rich in events and speakers (Ken MacLeod, Richard K. Morgan, Adrian Tchaikovsky, V.E. Schwab,…
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Are you making plans to attend Worldcon this year? The 77th Edition of the most important convention in SFF is going to take place in the amazing city of Dublin, between 15-19 August. There is still time to present in…
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Actually, it has turned five last week on 16th but, as it happens, I was neck-deep in preparing the submission filed for my non-fiction book on the space sector. Now that the book is not complete (about 90%) but in…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that…
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Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing. NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the Cassini Gran Finale (the moment the probe plunged itself to death into Saturn’s atmosphere). This comes…
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As every year, Edinburgh Book Festival is the writing event to look forward to in the summer. It is one of the largest public celebrations of the written word in the world, bringing to Scotland more than 1000 writers from around…
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In case you have a free weekend in front of you and you’re not too far away from France, this is an event you might want to attend: Eurocon 2018, held from 19 to 21 July in the city of…
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In case you’re in Rome, Italy (on holiday or AOB), there’s an event worthy of your time: Formula E. This is the first auto racing that uses only electric-powered cars. Interesting, isn’t it? The concept is relatively new: the series…
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Just back today from Helsinki – my third Worldcon and a very interesting one. I’ll talk about some of my favourite stuff in another post… for the moment, I’ll just share some images.
Today I’m particularly excited because for the first time I’m able to interview on this blog something that’s not Anglo-Saxon SF. (There’s nothing wrong with the English-speaking world, just to be clear, but it is nice to be able to…
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