Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
If you accept the idea that everyone/everything NOT living on planet Earth for all or most of their lives is a spacenoid (questionable as it might be, and the discussion would be long indeed…) we have a few of us…
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I first heard about The Friday Face-Off following the blog Books, Bones & Buffy (hello, Tammy!), but originally this feature was created by Books by Proxy. Each week bloggers can showcase books with covers cretered around a weekly theme. You can…
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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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It is with a lot of pleasure that I welcome here Andrea Johnson, one of the best blogs around reviewing speculative fiction. Andrea is now launching a Kickstarter campaign, and she talks here about it. Why Kickstarter? Why go through…
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New Horizons is almost there. After the historical flyby of Pluto in 2015, the probe has continued its course across the Kuiper Belt and it is now readying up for this (historical all the same) encounter, expected in two day…
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2018 has been another amazing year in terms of space exploration and rocket launches. Now that we’re almost at the end, I’d like to offer a few highlights. Some of the missions are still ongoing and one is coming to…
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Actually, it has turned five last week on 16th but, as it happens, I was neck-deep in preparing the submission filed for my non-fiction book on the space sector. Now that the book is not complete (about 90%) but in…
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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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Since I’m now deep down in my (non fiction) book about space (I’m due to submit to the publisher in a couple of weeks, after more than one year of work) I thought I could share here some of the…
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After having started the week with the (truly amazing) landing of Insight on Mars, I close it with the news of another event not less spectacular, also by NASA: Osiris-REX, after more than two years of travelling in outer space, will…
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