Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
It is not a real news that the glorious Cassini’s mission will come to an end in April 2017, when the spaceship will plunge into Saturn for what has been named “Gran Finale”. More precisely, starting from Nov. 30, 2016,…
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The Last Days on Mars, otherwise said, Zombies meet Aliens in The Martian’s setting – without all the quality and the thrill. This is, in short, what you can expect from this movie, ignored by the SF fandom for a (good) reason….
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If there’s a place that has been constantly in the mind of all space lovers in terms of a future home in space of mankind, that’s Mars. Impossible not to think here about cultural references – music, fiction and even science,…
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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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The Fountains of Paradise (1979) is SF novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It discusses for the first time the possibility of space elevators linking Earth with geosynchronous satellites, in something that looks now on the verge of becoming a viable…
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That NASA is getting back to its past splendours is a suspicion I harbour since a while, considering the increasing number of the Agency’s missions and amazing discoveries in recent years. Today, reading this week’s edition of New Scientist, I am definitively…
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Like Captain Harlock and Gundam, Saint Seiya:Knights of the Zodiac is a manga / anime that (almost) needs no introduction. Created by Masami Kuramada and serialised between 1986-1990, the long and complex story tells the adventure of five warriors that wear…
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The Dervish House (2010) by Ian McDonald is near-future science fiction/ thriller novel. It follows, through alternate character perspectives, a bus bombing incident in Istanbul. Dark, at times cynical, absolutely fascinating, it was shortlisted for a series of awards (…
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“The sun is always just about to rise. Mercury rotates so slowly that you can walk fast enough over its rocky surface to stay ahead of the dawn. (…) Mercury’s ancient face is so battered and irregular that the planet’s terminator,…
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