Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
SF in translation, as a phenomenon, is nothing new, of course. (Amazing) translated literature is as old as the literature itself, and SF is no exception. What’s new, however, is a few ongoing initiatives that are now putting non-English speculative…
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It has been a while since I’ve done this, so I think a quick roundup of some interesting space and science features recently in the news can be of use. NASA’s InSight lander is on its way to Mars. The…
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I generally do not talk about the EU politics on this blog (I have enough of it in my full-time job) but this story keeps popping up on my mental screen, and not just because I’m writing a journal article…
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I have extensively posted about the international online poll NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting station, launched on occasion of the 40th anniversary of Gundam franchise. Just last week (on 5.5.2018), the TV announced the much-awaited results. And here they are:…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that…
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On paper, this movie checked all my boxes for a good one: it is about space missions (a satellite crash); it is SF horror (even without reading the movie synopsis, I can tell by now just from the onset the…
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I’m a long-term fan of speculative fiction graphic novels (Bilal, just to name one among many) and, if you are too, there is one you can’t possibly miss: Mooncop. This is what the book’s blurb says: “The lunar colony is slowly…
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NASA’s next mission to Mars is a go, already on the launching pad. The probe is InSight Mars lander, which is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday 5 May in the morning. Contrary to other famous…
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