Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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VOSTOK – A review
It’s my turn now for the Vostok Blog Tour, presented by iRead Book Tours and that have kindly supplied an ARC of Vostok in…
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SF Classics – Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men (1930) is a SF novel about the future history of mankind over the next billion year or so written by…
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Forthcoming on EHM blog – reviews
Busy time ahead, and the books piling up on my desk are now starting to look like the Great Wall. Some are ARCs from Netgalley, others…
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The Ruins by Scott Smith. A review
If jungles, unspeakable monstrosities and places in the middle of nowhere are regular components of your nightmares, search no longer: this is the horror…
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Jupiter, Destroyer of Worlds
There have been in these last weeks many news discussing aspects of the biggest gas giant of the Solar System, and one of them has caught my…
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Interstellar: a long overdue (a)critical review
On a long-haul flight I’ve finally found the time to watch Interstellar, and if you have not done it yet, I advise you to. It…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Chasm City (2001) by Alastair Reynolds is a hard SF novel set in the universe of Revelation Space series. It portrays what remains of…
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The Gundam Multiverse – ガンダムシリーズ. Where to start
It is possible that, albeit you might not be a anime / manga fan, you would have still heard something about a series called Gundam (or…
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Living in the Solar System, a colonist’s guide
If you have always wondered, like me, how would it be in practice living on another world, you can’t possibly miss the series recently…
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Guest Post – Nomad or fictional planets?
This is the translation of an article first published on the Italian blog Il Tredicesimo Cavaliere, created and maintained by Roberto Flaibani. This blog…
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Third Rock & NASA Sound Gallery
Did you know that NASA has an internet radio station? It is called Third Rock, America’s Space Station, and it is a station “developed and operated…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Parasite by Mira Grant
Parasite (2013) by Mira Grant/ Seanan McGuire is an interesting blend of techno-thriller, horror and SF. It features a near-future humanity made virtually disease-free…
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Dawn on Ceres: mission accomplished!
Today March, 6 NASA’s Dawn has finally completed its historic mission and entered Ceres’ orbit after 7.5 year of travel. The first space mission to have…
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Dangerous Games, an anthology – Book Review
Dangerous Games is an interesting collection of SFF short stories – there are eighteen of them, for a total of 320 pages put together by Jonathan…
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Getting ready for Pluto
New Horizons is going to be at its closest to the ninth planet (controversies aside about its status – I assume here Pluto is…
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Connie Radar on the Moon
Who’s Connie Radar PhD anyway? As IO9 rightly defined her in this article, she’s a SF comics “badass, retrofuturistic space heroine”, who in her adventures lands on…
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SF Classics – The Uplift War by David Brin
The Uplift War (1987) is a SF novel by David Brin and part of the Uplift Universe. It portraits a fictional future universe where…
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SF from unusual perspectives: International Relations
That SF has often inspired astrophysicists and theoretical scientists is not something that should come as a surprise. After all, space elevators, while first…
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From hard-drive to DNA – the future of IT?
Otherwise said: how to store your (terabyte) data on a DNA string. Amazing, isn’t it? The first time I’ve heard about this deceptively simple…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 4
Latest articles published on Serious Wonder, all of them devoted to space missions, present or future. UNDER THE KRAKEN SEA – A NASA SUBMARINE…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
Neptune’s Brood (2013) is a SF novel by Charles Stross. The story is set in the same universe of Saturn’s Children, but 5000 years…
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The birth of a star (actually four)
Birth is certainly one of the most emotionally charged phenomena in nature, and a star makes no exception. For much as humans tend to…
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Horror Classics – Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Written in 1983 and adapted into a movie in 1989, Pet Sematary is by any standard one of the more frightening books I ever put my hands on.…
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Space Art from NASA
One thing I have not paid (so far) the right amount of attention is all artwork produced by NASA, and with that I mean…