Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Post number 2 in the Gundam series. Let’s talk today about something I have already mentioned in my introduction to this amazing anime franchise, i.e. the complicated multiverse where its adventures take place. In order to understand what’s happening and…
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It is possible that, albeit you might not be a anime / manga fan, you would have still heard something about a series called Gundam (or Gandamu, as in its Japanese transliteration): and with a reason. If there’s anything comparable to the…
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Who’s Connie Radar PhD anyway? As IO9 rightly defined her in this article, she’s a SF comics “badass, retrofuturistic space heroine”, who in her adventures lands on the lunar surface in 1957, well before the 1969 Apollo 11. And this 7-minute video “Over the…
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…which is maybe not a myth after all. When I have written some time ago about Nemesis, or the Death Star, in fiction and in conspiracy theories, I have briefly mentioned Planet X. Historically, this name has been given to two…
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Astrophysics has to make sense, especially in a SF book. When designing your fictional worlds you need to make sure things can survive on their own, short of creating an alternate physical universe – and I won’t even start imagining how difficult…
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As Steve Davison has written on Amazing Stories a while ago, Guardians of the Galaxy might well be this generation’s Star Wars, and it has some claims for this award, success included. However there are also some important differences. For instance, Star Wars…
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If you have been – like me – only half convinced by the whole Thor stuff, and that half you have liked is actually his rogue brother, well, rejoice. Now you have the story – originally spread on Thor, Thor:…
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This is a guest review on Space Pirate Captain Harlock – 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック (2013) – the latest movie of the manga/anime created by Leiji Matsumoto in the 70s. Some background of the original series can be found here, but previous knowledge is not necessarily…
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