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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I’ve been quite sluggish recently in uploading reviews (other writing came in the way) so now there are a few books in my waiting list, even though the good news is that I’ve read almost all of them. Some are…
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When I started, a couple of years ago, to write (again) fiction after many years of non-fiction / academic writing, I found myself a bit lost in terms of locating suitable venues. Of course, there are the journals /zines we…
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I am nowhere near to complete my series about Gundam (one of my favourite anime/manga), even though it has been a while since my last post. This one is only a short update about a few novelties of the franchise,…
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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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Four days ago, NASA made an amazing announcement – the biggest discovery of exoplanets to date. According to their figures, which added 1,284 planets to the total world count, the confirmed exoplanets are now more than 3,000 (3,264, to be precise)…
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The Time Ships (1995) is Stephen Baxter’s first SF novel. Its particularity lies in the fact that it is an (authorised) sequel to The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. It relates the story of the Time Traveller, which embarks…
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Getting to know the space out there in a more scientific way has never been as simple (I wouldn’t say easy, since it still requires hours of study and efforts) as it is nowadays. Not only there are large online…
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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…
Read more