Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
There are a few events in the coming months worth mentioning in case you’re just making your plans for Summer. I have spoken in the past about them, so I’ll only briefly provide here names and dates, but you can…
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One of the good things about living in Edinburgh is the events you have access to. Tonight is a good example – we have in town Professor Brian Cox for a theatre session of astrophysics and related topics. [If you…
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to witness two (different) but related events – both in the field of writing and publishing. One, in Edinburgh, was the second year anniversary of Luna Press Publishing, an independent Scottish small press. Established in…
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I normally don’t make any comment on this blog about political news, not because I don’t care, but because I do that in other venues. As a social scientist, I write/do research for a living about political and economic consequences of…
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For the ones not familiar with them, the Parsec Awards are an annual set of awards created to recognise excellence in speculative fiction podcast in all its form. While they are of recent creation (first time was in 2006 at…
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Worldcon 74 is nicely folding up, and it’s time for a recap. First of all, the location for 2018 – decided in MidAmCon II: San Jose, California won the bid for hosting Worldcon 76 in 2018 – and, considering is…
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Worldcons recently seem ill-fated to me; this is the second year in a row that I can’t make it. This time, I even flew to the States, only to find out I wasn’t able to actually reach Kansas City for…
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Like last year, 2016 Hugo Award nomination has been affected by SP/RP slating issues, resulting in the nomination of works and authors (Chuck Tingle is just one, but certainly the most surprising) that would have otherwise not found a space…
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Like every summer, in July I prepare my shopping list of events I’d like / plan to attend (I’ll keep it to Scotland for the moment, since I am still unsure about my attendance to Worldcon 2016 in Kansas City….
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Second day of Manunicon, i.e., the edition 2016 of the UK annual SF convention traditionally held in the Easter Weekend (hence the name Eastercon). This year we are in Manchester, and it’s going really well. As you can expect from…
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