Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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I normally do not like fantasy or even retelling of ancient myths: even when the writing is good, it’s difficult to be fresh and entertaining, let alone original. But it is the case to say here that Alis Franklin with…
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This is post number 4 in the Gundam Multiverse, and it will be devoted to exploring in more detail the amazing Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム), which is the original anime from where the whole franchise began. As such, it’s fundamental to…
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One thing I’ve always missed about online reviews is that they are normally only taking into account novels – with anthologies as a distant second (There are exceptions of course – IO9 being one of them. See for example this…
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE…
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Brasyl (2007) is a novel by Ian McDonald. It portrays an original SF thriller set on three different timelines – i.e. Brazil at different moments of its history: past, present and a dystopian future. Dark, compelling and politically engaged, it…
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You can’t say Andrew Piper’s new novel has an original title. Checking on Amazon I have found a few books with identical or similar names (and I don’t even mention close relatives, like my favourite Dostoevsky’s novel, Demons). When you open…
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The Years of Rice and Salt Quotes (2002) is a Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative fiction novel. It’s one of the most convincing examples of alternate history – set in a world where the Black Death in 1348 has killed 99%…
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There’s no way this series can be labelled anything else. Certainly not historical tout-court, for the reasons I will explain below. I don’t normally review TV Series, but this one got my attention. I have also to say that, apart…
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The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is an utopian SF novel. It belongs to the same fictional universe of the Left Hand of Darkness, where the Principle of Simultaneity makes possible instantaneous communication among interstellar systems, and it explores…
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