Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
If you believed (as I did) that historical fiction is by nature more the domain of long novels than short stories (or flash fiction), be ready to be surprised. As a matter of fact, there are a few publishers around…
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If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend AND you’re a speculative fiction fan, there’s nothing better you can do than visit Cymera, the first SFF Convention of its kind in the City. For the convention programme and last-minute news, see the…
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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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What you’re going to see here is a video streaming from the SFF publisher Baen, which discusses in detail how their editors pick up a book from their slush pile and what they’re searching for. If you are in the…
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It is with a lot of pleasure that I can finally give the announcement. My article “The Inquisitor’s creatures: the historical roots of the witch trope and its evolution over the centuries” is going to appear in the non-fiction book…
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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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If you are in the UK in June and you love speculative fiction, then this is a convention you might want to attend. The programme is rich in events and speakers (Ken MacLeod, Richard K. Morgan, Adrian Tchaikovsky, V.E. Schwab,…
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I have already talked about this interesting and well-researched historical series on the Roman Empire, which devoted the first season to Emperor Commodus (you remember Gladiator, right? I reviewed S1 here) and the second to Julius Ceasar (here‘s the review)….
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Another good week for space news. These are the headlines that have caught my attention -all worthy of a follow-up. The Universe Is Expanding So Fast We Might Need New Physics to Explain It -It is not the first time…
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Are you making plans to attend Worldcon this year? The 77th Edition of the most important convention in SFF is going to take place in the amazing city of Dublin, between 15-19 August. There is still time to present in…
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