Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
If you’re following this blog you already know I contribute articles to Amazing Stories. Today I’d like to talk about the SF short story contest the e-zine has launched this year named after Hugo Gernsback (yes, he’s the one the Hugo Awards…
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It’s impossible not to celebrate these days the incredible achievements of Hubble’s Space Telescope – which has just turned 25. A joint ESA/NASA project, launched into Earth’s orbit on April, 24th, 1990, the space telescope has dramatically changed our knowledge of…
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If you had the impression by following the twitter feed of Dysprosium/ Eastercon 2015 (i.e. the Eastercon SF convention in the UK where, among others, the announcement of the Hugo nominations are given) that this year things have flamed out…
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That SF has often inspired astrophysicists and theoretical scientists is not something that should come as a surprise. After all, space elevators, while first theorised by the Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, were made famous by Arthur C. Clarke in his…
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For the ones of you who have not made it to this amazing event, here a gallery of photos. Enjoy!
A WorldCon – i.e., the annual SF Word Convention – is an amazing event, culminating in the Hugo Awards night but also featuring a head-spinning series of events, panels, games, music performances (called filk in SF jargon), art dealers, promotions…
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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 was not able to read the whole bunch. Too many things, too little time. Some reviewers…
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There are many great things about attending Sci-Fi Worldcons, and not just when they are organised in cities like London. One of them is the possibility to vote for the Hugo Awards – whose nominations were announced this year during…
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One of the most interesting things about conventions – Eastercon doesn’t make any exception to this rule – is the possibility given to the participant to understand the milieu, i.e., how the discipline itself stops being an abstraction only existing…
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Well, here we are. It looks like it’s going to be a great event. Hosted in the Convention Centre, on the banks of River Clyde and in front of BBC Glasgow, the area is as suitable for an event as…
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