Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences…
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Neptune’s Brood (2013) is a SF novel by Charles Stross. The story is set in the same universe of Saturn’s Children, but 5000 years later and with different characters. It features clones, bank-employed historians, assassins and the fantastic water-world of…
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For the ones of you who have not made it to this amazing event, here a gallery of photos. Enjoy!
Friday 1 August was the last useful day to vote for the 2014 Hugo Awards and now, finally done with them, I must admit I was not able to read the whole bunch. Too many things, too little time. Some reviewers…
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A visionary and ironic melange of comedy and SF, Equoid (2013) is a brilliant example of Charles Stross’ prose and a stand-alone novella in his Laundry series. It features a field agent working for British government agency “the Laundry”, in…
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There are many great things about attending Sci-Fi Worldcons, and not just when they are organised in cities like London. One of them is the possibility to vote for the Hugo Awards – whose nominations were announced this year during…
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