Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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When Foucault’s Pendulum meets Men in Black – The Descent by Ken Macleod. A book review
When a book starts like The Descent does, with the protagonist blaming himself to be a stalker, pervert, drug-addict, conspiracy theorist, and “fuck it.…
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Space, lies, and video(tape)
i.e, what else is fake in space? A funny video I watched a few days ago (that I also advise to anybody interested in…
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The new zombie’s canon: Word War Z, by Max Brooks – book review
It has been rightly affirmed that the World War Z book and the movie share two things in common, the name, and the fact they were…
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Eastercon 2014 – almost there!
Glasgow 18-21 April 2014, in what promises to be a great event. Puzzled? Eastercon (http://www.eastercon.org/index.php/Main_Page) is just another name for the British yearly science-fiction…
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Zombies, Reloaded / 2 – Apocalypse Z by Manuel Loureiro
It was by mistake that I stumbled upon Apocalypse Z. I was actually searching for Max Brooks’ Word War Z – I heard about…
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Crowdsourcing, planet hunting and missing planes
There is no doubt that crowdsourcing is the buzzword these days, and its recent use in tracking down the mysteriously disappeared MH 370 plane…
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Zombies, Reloaded – The (new) zombie wave / 1
If you have the impression that the world is about to be gobbled up raw in a frenzy of bleeding body parts by hordes…
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Space exploration – to the far end of the Solar System? Maybe, or maybe not.
2015 NASA budget – as disclosed in these day by the White House – (http://www.space.com/24911-nasa-2015-budget-highlights.html) – amounts at $17.5 billion to NASA, about $200…
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Book Review: Journey to Civilization. The Science of How We Got Here by Roger P. Briggs
Writing a summary of the human civilisation that spans from the Australopitecus and its peers to the moment history truly starts is a task…
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Book Review: The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Rating 4/5 Something is messing with my subconscious, clearly. After crowmen (see my D’Lacey’s The Book of the Crowman review) and zombies (about which…
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The Crystal Crypt, by Philip K. Dick
I have read a fascinating short story last night, a classic of Philip K. Dick, The Crystal Crypt. I had some far-away memories, since…
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Book Review: The Book of the Crowman – J. D’Lacey, the Last of the Keepers
When I have started The Book of the Crowman, I was under the spell of Stephen King’s comments – one of them right on…
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Sci-Fi all-time favourites
I have been asked by a friend to name 10 books – no more, no less – I will take with me should I…
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Book Reviews
Writing reviews is among my favourite activities, and I am going to post a few on this blog. Mainly books, but movies and anime are…
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So, so beautiful
http://www.space.com/24299-weirdly-passive-black-hole-discovered-orbiting-fast-spinning-star-animation.html When a star meets a black hole a lot of strange things can happen. This video is eerily charming to look at.
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Exoplanet young, single, orbiting sun-like star. Sci-Fi Writers wanted for exciting stories.
One of the most exciting features of astronomy today is the search for exoplanets offering life conditions suitable for life (see http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets.html). Things are…
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The (otherwise amazing) Night Dawn’s Trilogy conclusion…
(Warning: Spoilers Ahead!) I do wonder why Joshua Calvert ends up with the least attractive of all the girls he puts his hands on…
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Nemesis – The Rise and Fall of a Death Star
Updated in November 2014 A small celebrity in the scientific community since the 80s, the hypothetical Nemesis is just as famous among the non-specialists,…
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Lonely, young planet drifting in space without a star – any taker?
Its name is PSO J318.5-22, a baby planet (only 12 ml year old!) floating in space near our system… The whole story at: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/10/tech/space-new-planet/index.html
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Saturn’s Streaming Hexagon
From Nasa’s Cassini mission, voila’ the Exagon, Saturn’s glittering North Pole…
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Jade Rabbit is there!
Jade Rabbit is there! And here we go…China made it, and Yutu (ie, its mythological Jade Rabbit) finally walks – well, sort of –…