Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
After having published two posts in the past months re: speculative fiction podcasts (I’m not done with the general overview yet, but there’a lot to cover), I decided it might be a good idea to run some interviews with the…
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Nova (1968) is an SF novel by Samuel R. Delany. It reads like space opera, with a hero on a quest and two interstellar factions one against the other, but it’s far more than that. Highly innovative without being experimental,…
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For the ones not familiar with them, the Parsec Awards are an annual set of awards created to recognise excellence in speculative fiction podcast in all its form. While they are of recent creation (first time was in 2006 at…
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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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His Majesty’s Dragon (2006) by Naomi Novik is an SFF novel, and one of the best examples of alternate history. It’s set during the Napoleonic Wars, on an Earth where dragons are real and are used for aerial warfare in…
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It seems that all SF movies I come across these days are mixed with strong – and, unfortunately, often sloppy, or unoriginal – horror elements (for reasons I am going to explore in another post). Pandorum, a 2009 British-German movie now…
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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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Aurora (2015) by Kim Stanley Robinson is centred on a generation ship en route to a Tau Ceti’s Earth-like exoplanet to begin a colony. In this hard SF novel, the story is told by the ship’s AI’s point of view….
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This is holiday time – for me the moment to catch up with my favourite anime/manga, discovering new ones and watching/ reading some of the beloved, old series. A discussion I had a few days ago with a friend was…
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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