Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham is a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi horror novel where mankind, with the exception of the protagonist, Bill Masen, has been blinded by a mysterious meteor shower. To make things worse, the world is…
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Keeping on the exoplanet series, after the general introduction and the presentation of the oldest one (so far) discovered, today I am going to address another interesting characteristic: distance. Distance matters, no discussion about it. I have already mentioned the importance of the…
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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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I have to admit the reason why I have requested the The Shadow Master, by Craig Cormick, in ARC is that I read so many things about it (namely: on Goodreads) that I got curious. A few of them are negative…
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Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert, is the world’s best-selling SF novel and possibly the most famous and popular ever. Paul Atreides, the planet Arrakis and the spice are known to all SF lovers, even though not that many have followed…
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Ever fancied naming a star – or even better a planet? If you are a SF author, that’s easy thing. (And actually there are hundreds of fictional planets out there. Some of them sport pretty names – Arrakis, Tatooine, Vulcan or Fleed)….
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Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, and the first in the cyberpunk genre. Also the first book to win the so-called SF “triple crown” — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the prestigious…
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Some weeks ago I talked about the incredible variety of exoplanets, which we have just began to discover. I have also mentioned what we normally find and we can expect to find according to astrophysics, including the most coveted targets – i.e., planets in…
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