Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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Saturn’s best
There are not a lot of things in space cooler than planets, and Saturn can rightly claim the crown for the coolest one (I personally…
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SF Classics – I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson is one of the most influential books written in speculative fiction. It is a SF/horror novel, featuring…
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Guest post: Space Pirate Captain Harlock – 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック. A review
This is a guest review on Space Pirate Captain Harlock – 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック (2013) – the latest movie of the manga/anime created by Leiji Matsumoto in the 70s.…
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Hello Comet! Rosetta is here
After 10 years of travel, ESA spacecraft Rosetta yesterday reached her target, becoming the first probe to ever orbit a comet. Look at the incredible…
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SF Classics – Raft. The Xeelee Sequence, by Stephen Baxter
Raft (1993) by Stephen Baxter, tells the story of a few thousand humans in an increasing hostile environment, located in an alternate, high-gravity universe. They…
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2014 Hugo Awards – almost there
Friday 1 August was the last useful day to vote for the 2014 Hugo Awards and now, finally done with them, I must admit I…
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The amazing sound of…space
We all know by now that, differently from what SF movies led us to believe, you can’t hear a sound in space. Therefore no spectacular…
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SF Classics – The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham is a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi horror novel where mankind, with the exception of the protagonist, Bill…
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Photogenic (Exo)planets
Keeping on the exoplanet series, after the general introduction and the presentation of the oldest one (so far) discovered, today I am going to address another…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Equoid by Charles Stross
A visionary and ironic melange of comedy and SF, Equoid (2013) is a brilliant example of Charles Stross’ prose and a stand-alone novella in…
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Book Review: The Shadow Master, by Craig Cormick
I have to admit the reason why I have requested the The Shadow Master, by Craig Cormick, in ARC is that I read so…
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SF Classics – Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert, is the world’s best-selling SF novel and possibly the most famous and popular ever. Paul Atreides, the planet Arrakis…
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Name the planet of your dreams
Ever fancied naming a star – or even better a planet? If you are a SF author, that’s easy thing. (And actually there are hundreds of…
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SF Classics – Neuromancer by William Gibson
Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, and the first in the cyberpunk genre. Also the first book to win the…
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Meeting Methuselah
Some weeks ago I talked about the incredible variety of exoplanets, which we have just began to discover. I have also mentioned what we normally find and we…
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SF Classics – The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is the first, famous example of feminist science fiction. Also well-known for the…
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Seven Modern Plagues by Mark Jerome Walters
Seven Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them, by the journalist, academic and veterinarian Mark Jerome Walters, is the updated version of his famous…
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Writing about space for other blogs
I have started since a couple of months or so to contribute to a great blog called Serious Wonder, one of the most innovative…
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SF Classics – The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester, originally published as a serial on a magazine in 1956, is considered by many The Count of…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Descent by Ken MacLeod
Descent (2014) is the latest novel of the Scottish writer Ken MacLeod. Set up in a near future, it follows a young man’s life…
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Utopia, dystopia and other monsters
“Where in fucktopia are you, Dexter?” Yells Debra Morgan, obviously searching in vain for her brother. Sure thing, Debra did not hint at anything…
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SF Classics -The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
The Reality Dysfunction (1996), by Peter F. Hamilton, it’s the first book in The Night’s Dawn Trilogy, one of the best known in…
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Alien Life and E. Coli
In what seems more the plot of a SF novel than a scientific discovery, a new strand of DNA has recently been engineered in…
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SF Classics – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
” The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury is a 1950 science fiction short story collection that follows a future history structure and tells the…