Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
This is a limited selection of a series of random photos I have taken over four days of Worldcon. The organisation was great [REDACTED DUE TO EVENTS AFTER THE HUGO CEREMONY. SEE BELOW], the level of speakers and programmes impressive,…
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The first submission period for Frozen Wavelets (the upcoming speculative flash fiction and poetry zine hosted by this blog) closed on 15 July. It had started on July 1. As I am not only a writer myself but a professional…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE…
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The end of July is rapidly approaching, and it’s now the time to vote for the Hugo Awards, whether you’re attending Worldcon (this year in Dublin) or not. As a matter of fact, you can just buy a supporting membership,…
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Only a few dates in the history of humankind are as iconic as Saturday, 20 July 1969, the very day a man walked on the soil on another celestial body for the first time. So far, it has remained the only…
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As every year in Scotland, Edinburgh Book Festival is one of the main writing events to look forward to. Part of the Fringe Festival, it is one of the largest public celebrations of the written word in the world, bringing to…
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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 is Kelly Matsuura and how did she become a writer? I am Australian and grew up…
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As we approach the day of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing (20 July, and NASA has plans about it), it would be nice to get into the right (space) mood. The good news is there are great opportunities…
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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 from the US soil in these last years. More in general, space exploration news and missions…
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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 launched in 2013 and still in full activity. Just over one year ago, GAIA released its…
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