Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Here I am. Just finished validating my draft of 50,932 words. I barely believe I made it – but those words came somehow out from my Mac, and the screenshot is there to prove it. Wow. What my novel was…
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When thinking about VR (Virtual Reality) a lot of things come to mind – to me, videogames are the first, followed by other, more scientific, applications. What I have recently discovered, instead, is that NASA has been quite active in…
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Post number five in the exoplanet series, covering this time the important aspect of size. (In case you are interested to other variables examined so far, here they are: habitability, age, distance, temperature). After that in April 2014 a Earth-size planet…
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The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman is a military science fiction novel, telling the story of William Mandella, a soldier of the United Nations Exploratory Force that fights an interstellar war against the alien Taurans. Widely believed to be…
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This is a guest post by Chango (for contributing posts here have a look at this). The original version of these two book reviews, genre YA-fantasy, has been uploaded on Amazon Italy as a verified purchase. I’ve put them together…
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I have been an avid manga reader (and anime fan) since childhood, and what I loved the most was to pick my hero and follow him (her) during the story. Or a villain, that sometimes is far more charming than any…
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This is definitively the year of bacteria in terms of scientific discovery and ground-breaking experiments. It was only a few months ago that a new strand of DNA was engineered in a lab, creating an organism with semi-synthetic (“alien”) DNA. And it’s…
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Steel Beach (1993) by John Varley, is a sci-fi novel where humans now live on the Moon after an alien invasion. Steel Beach, this is the name of the colony, is a sort of utopian, free-love society run by a…
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This November week brings us an exciting space event to follow, unique in kind. ESA’s spacecraft Rosetta, that has successfully reached Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last August, will try, for the first time ever, to land its Philae probe on the comet surface….
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The usual update about my latest published articles on other blogs/magazines – these ones on from Serious Wonder. This time I have only included the ones on space and physics, leaving science and SF for another post. WILL WE EVER WALK…
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