Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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November (SF) events… read & write
Way too many things in November for people like me that love speculative fiction… but two are the ones I’m going to join. The first…
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Worldbuilding for SF – A Writer’s Guide, review
“The classic advice to writers is “Write about what you know.” But if you’re a science fiction writer, you often write about what you…
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See you on Enceladus
That Enceladus is one of the most spectacular moons in the Solar System is already known – for many reasons, including pure aesthetic ones.…
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SF Classics – The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut is a SF novel portraying a Martian invasion of Earth. Its main theme is free will, and…
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The Great Red Spot makes the news (again)
If there is a famous image for Jupiter, it’s for sure the one of its Great Read Spot, which is a giant, spinning, fast travelling…
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Dreaming of Dyson Spheres
A recent discovery by Kepler, the planet hunter, has got everybody in the scientific community excited, as a brief look to this week’s news can…
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Pluto’s latest surprises
… If you have thought we were done with Pluto (who dares still calling it a dwarf, planet or anything?), well, get ready. NASA…
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2015 Nobel Prize goes to Neutrinos
…. or, to be more precise, to their investigators. As announced today, October 6, on the official webpage, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015…
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Water on Mars, what’s the big deal?
… I mean, it’s not like there’s no H2O anywhere in the Solar System apart from our planet. We know for a fact that…
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Dragon scales on Pluto’s surface
It seems surprises are not over yet – at least judging from what the newly-downloaded data from New Horizons showed to NASA scientists. Together…
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Tools for sky lovers (and SF worldbuilders) – eSky
I have already written some time ago about tools for exploring the night sky and find your way around. Today I want to talk…
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Dark Star by Oliver Langmead. A review
Dark Star is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting books published in 2015, for many reasons: it’s SF, yet built with the pace and the…
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Worldbuilding for historical fiction – travels
That worldbuilding is complicated and time-consuming is something every creator of fiction, no matter the media adopted, knows well. Creating detailed and coherent fantasy…
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Go, New Horizons, Go – The next target
Dust has not yet settled on Pluto’s amazing Flyby that New Horizons got more job to do. Or so it seems. In a way,…
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Top Ten Tuesday (September 1) – Top Ten Characters you just didn’t click with
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish, where each week bloggers are given a new Top Ten…
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Hugo 2015 Awards – now it’s done
After all the controversies and the issues of this year’s Hugo Award, it’s sort of a miracle that things went not so bad, after…
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Edinburgh International Book Festival – highlights
For personal reasons (read: baby daughter) I had to cancel my attendance at Sasquan (SF Worldcon 2015) … thus I am determined now to…
