Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences…
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It doesn’t happen often that I review a self-published book – not because I have anything against indie authors, but just because my time for reviewing is so limited that I need to stick to the novels I really want…
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This is a post in the series re: speculative fiction podcasts, and the third interview for “Seven Questions with your favourite SFF podcast editors” (for the others, see this). This week I feature Gary Dowell, editor of Far-Fetched Fables – one…
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Blindsight (2006), by Peter Watts, is a hard SF novel of first contact with a unique twist. It asks difficult questions about the nature of consciousness and what it means to be humans. Nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel,…
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We have been somehow spoiled in the last years by a few amazing achievements, but let’s not forget that space remains as extreme a challenge as ever. These last days news are here to prove it (as if it were…
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Cyberpunk is without any doubt one of my favourite brands of SF, and I am always glad when I discover authors and books that can stay side by side with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling or Richard K Morgan on the…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences…
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Mainly for reasons of (lack of) time, I have decided to start a periodical feature on this blog devoted to space news. There are weeks when they are so numerous and /or interesting that one dedicated post is not sufficient…
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Few manga/anime can compete with Saint-Seiya for complexity of timelines, characters – and beauty. But, unfortunately, one of their late instalments – The Lost Canvas – is not going to be remembered for this last characteristic. And while there are…
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This is a post in the series re: speculative fiction podcasts, and the second interview for “Seven Questions with your favourite SFF podcast editors” (the first one, with Kevin Frost from the Gallery of Curiosities, is available here). This week…
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