Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Dawn’s mission to Ceres has certainly been one of the highlights of 2015 space missions, exploring a new world in the Asteroid Belt and sending over to Earth a trove of data and imagery, some of them truly stunning. While…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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For a bizarre coincidence, I’ve written about the fabled (and infamous) Planet X just this time last year, mentioning that, from the analysis of some ETNOs (Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects), there was some evidence of unknown gravitational pull affecting their orbit. More…
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If you’re a regular SFF reader, Apex needs no introduction – they publish an amazing award-winner magazine in which every writer would kill to appear and that’s a delight to read. But even if you’re not, chances are that you have…
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Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) by William Gibson is a SF novel and the final instalment of the Sprawl trilogy, after Neuromancer and Count Zero, in what it’s considered the canon of the cyberpunk literature. Dark and engaging as the other…
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Today Ziggy Stardust left planet Earth for an unknown destination – probably a far away galaxy. His human host, David Bowie “died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer“, as his son Duncan Jones…
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One of the most valuable results New Horizons was able to deliver in its historic Pluto’s flyby was more information and precious imagery of its moon system -which is far more interesting than anybody had imagined. A lot has been…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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It’s not the first time I cover this authentic natural wonder, including posting a link to a media gallery with some of the best Cassini’s coverage. They are the most beautiful of their kind, at least in the Solar System (we…
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If 2014 was a great year for space lovers – Rosetta is just an example, even though a telling one – 2015 has been even more rewarding in terms of discoveries and achievements, some of them (New Horizons, Dawn) enriching dramatically…
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