Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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Build your own habitable planet -available tools
Everybody familiar with SF knows about the habitable zone, at least the basics. It’s that area around a star where life is possible. A…
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Sacrifice (2016). A review.
It’s a (well-known) fact -at least for friends&neighbours- that I binge-watch pretty much all horror Netflix and Amazon Prime dare to put online. Horror movies…
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Space Features of the Week (10 February)
Some interesting highlights this week (and NO, I’m NOT going to talk about Falcon Heavy. The rest of the world does it, right?). I…
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The Voynich manuscript – have we really found the key?
One of the most interesting news of the last days is the claim, by the University of Alberta, that researchers have used one AI…
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Running Out of Space by S.J. Higbee. A review
This review of the first instalment of a new SF series by S.J. Higbee was originally part of a Blog Tour between October and December…
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News, January 2018
Another round of market news received since New Year: I have done my first pro-sale of the year -to the forthcoming anthology Monstrosities by…
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Space Features of the Week (27 January)
I’ve recently seen a few interesting things in the press, so it’s the moment for another roundup of what’s happening in outer space (and…
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Interview with A.C. Wise
I am honoured to start my interviews of the year with A.C. Wise, speculative fiction writer and editor. She needs no introduction, therefore I’ll…
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(Awesome) videos about space
I have recently come across some amazing videos – and here they are! Definitively worth watching. The first is a “visualization explores the Orion…
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“Mexico City” online at Fabula Argentea
My reprint SF story “Mexico City” is now live at Fabula Argentea, at this link. I’m still waiting for somebody to find out what this…
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Adventure & Travel Literature -reading suggestions
There are many reasons you might be interested in reading non-fiction that deals with travels and adventure in general. For one, you can genuinely…
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Mobil Suit Gundam – The Origin
If there’s something I really look forward to is to watch the OVA rendition of MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN (機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN), a…
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2018 -what to look forward to (space-wise)
This year I’ve decided, for once, not to do any New Year Resolutions. After all, I’ve started 2018 in bed with strong flu and…
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Best of 2017 (astro) news
At -2 (or 1, depending on which part of the globe you’re based) to 2018, it’s the moment for a quick recap of 2017…
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Aliens out there: Oumuamua
It has been a while since I have got across something as interesting as this bizarrely-shaped celestial object that has recently appeared on our…
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Blogiversary -Year 4
And here we are -four years of blogging, and the last one happened so quickly my head is spinning. Not all the plans I…
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Triangle (2009). A review.
If you stumble upon Triangle (I don’t think you’re going to search for it. At least, I didn’t, because I’ve never heard of it…
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Everest (2015). A review
I found out about Everest (a 2015 British-American biographical adventure movie, directed and co-produced by Baltasar Kormákur) by chance when browsing Netflix’s adventure section. As…
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“M” podcast, Far Fetched Fables
My historical dark fantasy story “M” is now a podcast. Hear it here (narrated by the amazing team of Far Fetched Fables, District of…
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Altered Carbon: The Trailer
You remember Altered Carbon, right? It’s the amazing book by Richard K. Morgan that redefined the whole concept of cyberpunk in XXI century, together…
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Friday (writing) + (cheap) advice [or: how to safely kiss plague rats]
It is 1 December, it is Friday and what I have to do today is to mark dissertation proposals (I work in a university, after…
