Author: Steph P. Bianchini
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Summer 2019 Events
As every year in Scotland, Edinburgh Book Festival is one of the main writing events to look forward to. Part of the Fringe Festival,…
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Interview with Kelly Matsuura, Publisher and Editor of The Insignia Series Anthologies
I am thrilled to host this month an interview with Kelly Matsuura, the Publisher of the Insignia Series, anthologies of Asian SF and Fantasy. Who…
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Space Events in the next 30 days
As we approach the day of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing (20 July, and NASA has plans about it), it would be…
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Spaceflight in 2018
This is the first of a series of post on spaceflight. (Almost) everybody knows and follows Space X’s amazing progress toward resuming human spaceflight…
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Gaia’s Beauty
This is not the title of a fantasy story (even though it could well be). No, I am talking about GAIA, ESA’s space observatory…
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Magazines that publish historical fiction
If you believed (as I did) that historical fiction is by nature more the domain of long novels than short stories (or flash fiction),…
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Snapshots from Cymera
If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend AND you’re a speculative fiction fan, there’s nothing better you can do than visit Cymera, the first SFF…
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Slushing. Insights from the industry
What you’re going to see here is a video streaming from the SFF publisher Baen, which discusses in detail how their editors pick up…
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Writing about (historical) witchcraft.
It is with a lot of pleasure that I can finally give the announcement. My article “The Inquisitor’s creatures: the historical roots of the…
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Cymera 2019 -Scotland’s Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, 7-9 June 2019, Edinburgh
If you are in the UK in June and you love speculative fiction, then this is a convention you might want to attend. The…
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Netflix’s Roman Empire Season 3: The Mad Emperor
I have already talked about this interesting and well-researched historical series on the Roman Empire, which devoted the first season to Emperor Commodus (you…
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Space Features of the Week (27 April)
Another good week for space news. These are the headlines that have caught my attention -all worthy of a follow-up. The Universe Is Expanding…
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Going to Worldcon in August -planning on the way
Are you making plans to attend Worldcon this year? The 77th Edition of the most important convention in SFF is going to take place…
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Space Features of the Week (13 April)
This week has been particularly rich in terms of space news, but three of them stole the headlines around the world. Here you have…
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The Friday Face-Off: A cover featuring a desert landscape
The meme The Friday Face-Off was originally created by Books by Proxy. Each week bloggers showcase books with covers centred around a weekly theme.…
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“Visitors” is now online on Coffin Bell 2.2
My dark fantasy poem “Visitors” is now online on the new issue of Coffin Bell, devoted to ‘Magic’. Read it here.
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Ten Literary Magazines that welcome speculative fiction
I generally submit stories and poetry to speculative fiction venues. This is due to the fact that literary magazines more often than not do…
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Mary Queen of Scots (2018). A review.
I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the…
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Happy Worm (Super) Moon and -why do the Equinox date changes?
This was the question my niece asked me a while ago, and with a reason. We’re used to the fact that astronomical events are…
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The autopsy of Jane Doe (2016). A review.
This relatively unknown movie, right now available on Netflix, was a pleasant surprise for many reasons -the first being that it is not what…
