Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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Another reason (if you ever needed one) to visit Tokyo (again)
… would be to visit the brand-new Gundam in Odaiba, unveiled on September 2017. If you are -as I am – a Gundam fan,…
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Space Features of the Week (20 November)
A few interesting articles about space I have come across in the last days. Definitively worth a reading, people. Everybody who follows astrophysics and…
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My favourite books about writing
I had a conversation with a friend a few days ago and we spoke briefly about books for genre fiction writing. Both of us…
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News, November 2017
A few (good) news received in these first two weeks of the month: I have won another Honourable Mention in Writers of the Futures,…
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Teaser Tuesday (7 November)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read…
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Space Features of the Week (5 November)
Newsclipping from recent space and tech articles from around the web, some of them really interesting. Nearby neutron star collision could cause calamity on…
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It’s this time of the year again (NaNoWriMo)
I believe everyone knows about NaNoWriMo, which stays for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual, Internet-based writing endeavour that happens in November. People…
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Interview with S.J. Higbee, blogger and author of Running Ouf of Space
Continuing with my interview series of editors and authors, today I am thrilled to have S.J. Higbee here to present her new novel. I know…
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Teaser Tuesday (24 October)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read…
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My author page is online
… about time, I know. It was on my 2017 new-blog-year resolutions (stated here), but for a reason or another, I have never fully…
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The Martian Wave 2017 now in print
… in which, together with some really great authors, there’s also a story of mine, “Orcus Express, Derailed” an SF/Horror set on the remote…
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Dwarf planets with rings? Hell, yes!
Apparently, not just planets have rings. Even smaller bodies – such as dwarf planets – have them, and that has just been proved. And…
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The most popular manga ever
As a long-time manga/anime lover, I have many times wondered why some series -very popular in Japan -are almost unknown in Europe, no matter…
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“The Day you Discover Beauty” online at Strange Fictions Zine
My reprint SF story “The Day you Discover Beauty” is now live at Strange Fictions Zine, at this link. By the way, it has…
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Post-Blade Runner 2049. Review(s)
[Disclaimer: spoilers, in the second part of this post only. I’ll warn you later on up to where it is safe to read if…
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2017 Nobel Prize for Gravitational Waves
Yes, that’s it. Today Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne (you do remember him, right? Interstellar, anyone?) and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize 2017 –…
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Getting ready for Blade Runner 2049
…and here we are: finally! The most awaited movie of the year is out next week, and the early reviews are glowing. “A gigantic spectacle…
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Hexen’s Ghosts live on Crimson Streets
My crime/mystery story “Hexen’s Ghosts” has been published on Crimson Streets on 24 September 2017. Read it here.
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Anime on Netflix – a few favourites
After having reviewed Castelvania on this blog, I’ve received a few questions about which anime are worth watching on Netflix. Difficult to answer, since the…
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I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist. A review
It is not a mystery for anybody reading this blog that I am a fan of Lindqvist. I have reviewed his brilliant “Let the…
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Interview live at the Uprising Review
Everitt Foster interviewed me for the Uprising Review, where one of my stories (A Thousand Ways of Not Detecting Aliens) has been reprinted in August 2017. Here’s the…
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So long, Earthians. Cassini, over and out.
And this is it. On Friday 15 September, after 20 years in space, 13 of which spent in Saturn’s system, Cassini plunged into the…