Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
This week has been particularly rich in terms of space news, but three of them stole the headlines around the world. Here you have a roundup. Space X continues to achieve new heights. Just this week it recovered Falcon Heavy…
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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 meme The Friday Face-Off was originally created by Books by Proxy. Each week bloggers showcase books with covers centred around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday…
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I generally submit stories and poetry to speculative fiction venues. This is due to the fact that literary magazines more often than not do not accept speculative fiction or, when they do, they’re partial to something more blurred and slipstream…
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I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the family Mary belonged to (the Guise) for a long time, I was always unhappy with the…
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This was the question my niece asked me a while ago, and with a reason. We’re used to the fact that astronomical events are “fix”, like the duration of the day and night, the revolution of the Earth around the…
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This relatively unknown movie, right now available on Netflix, was a pleasant surprise for many reasons -the first being that it is not what you could expect from the title and the blurb: “A father and son, both coroners, are…
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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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I have already written in the past about markets for microfiction (intended here as all the prose between 0 and 300 words) and compiled a list of venues you can submit to. That list remains valid even today, and it…
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Even if you don’t follow space news, you’ve probably heard about this historical achievement. Space X’s new module, Crew Dragon, which is going to take later this year astronauts to the ISS, has successfully made its maiden voyage, even though…
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