Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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Creature Entanglement up on Speculative 66
My piece in 66 words “Creature Entanglement” has just appeared on Speculative 66 #12, together with some other amazing microfiction stories. Read it here.
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American anime on the rise: Castlevania
If you are obsessed with anime the way I am, you’ll find the development of anime-style series in the Western countries quite interesting, even…
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Heading to Milford – 9-16 September
Next week I am going to attend the fabled Milford, the annual UK writing workshop for speculative fiction authors. I am excited and together…
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Interview with L. L. Madrid, Founder and Editor of Speculative 66
I am thrilled to have L.L. Madrid here this month to present her amazing Speculative 66, one of the best venues for microfiction (I have…
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Dancing Bautas for the Ashes’ Day published on Easy Street
My dark fantasy flash fiction “Dancing Bautas for the Ashes’ Day” has just come out on Easy Street, the sister publication of The Lascaux…
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Space Features of the Week (26 August)
As usual, some newsclipping from recent space and tech articles to keep us sharp. I haven’t done it in a while (blame holidays) but…
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Good venues for microfiction
If you -like me – love flash fiction in all its declinations, you would also especially enjoy microfiction, which is, in many aspects, comparable…
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The eclipse…from Europe
The most amazing event of the year will be generally lost to Europeans – but people in the British Isles will have a remote…
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Where’s Cassini now? Countdown has just started
In case you have been wondering what’s happening to Cassini, the glorious space probe in its last months of 13-year mission, here’s the fact: Cassini…
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News, August 2017
I had so far three acceptances in August, and namely: One short story (Hues of Different Green) – at the genre magazine Alien Dimension…
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Honourable Mention, WOTF Contest, 2nd Quarter 2017
One of my stories won an Honourable Mention in Writers of the Futures, 2nd Quarter 2017 This is the second one I got from…
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They- flash fiction
They has been first published in October 2015 on Vine Leaf Literary Journal. Since then, it has been reprinted in a few places, including…
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Helsinki Worldcon 75 – snapshots
Just back today from Helsinki – my third Worldcon and a very interesting one. I’ll talk about some of my favourite stuff in another…
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Teaser Tuesday (8 August)
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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August for Stargazers
While the Event (with capital E) of this Summer 2017 will be the great American eclipse in a few week time, we Europeans will…
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Interview with Francesco Verso, Editor in Chief of Future Fiction
Today I’m particularly excited because for the first time I’m able to interview on this blog something that’s not Anglo-Saxon SF. (There’s nothing wrong…
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Space Features of the Week (30 July)
As usual, some interesting news from space and technology (yes, I know, it’s difficult to remain positive when we look at the news. Keep…
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The Cartography of the Solar System – The Moon
Now that I’m deep down in Artemis (I’ve mentioned it in another post) I realised that whenever I read a book set in one…
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Can’t-Wait Wednesday – Artemis by Andy Weir
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally,…
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Proxima Centauri b keeps getting attention
A few months ago Proxima Centauri b, an exoplanet in the constellation of Centaurus located “only” 4.22 light-years from Earth, got a lot of attention, since…
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On Writing – food for thought
I don’t often blog about writing, for many reasons (the main is: there are *hundreds* of people out there that do it far better…