Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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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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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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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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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For historical /manga lovers, Devilman [デビルマン] is quite a famous (or infamous, depending on where you stand) feature. Authored by Go Nagai [永井 豪] – yes, it’s the same mangaka that created Mazinger [グレートマジンガー ] and Grendizer / Goldrake [ＵＦＯロボ グレンダイザー], just to…
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If there’s one thing I really *adore* (when it’s properly done, of course) in SFF literature is that part of worldbuilding involving cities. There are some immortal ones that stay in the memory years, or even decades, after you read about…
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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…
Read more