Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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…
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Since the start of 2017, I’ve been reading or re-reading historical novels (due to an ongoing project. More about that in future): history is a long time passion, even though in recent years I’ve been leaning more toward speculative fiction….
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While we wait for next year (2019 is going to be the 40th anniversary of Gundam) a few news about the franchise. First of all, this article –New ‘Gundam’ Anime Reveals Its 2018 Release Date – gives updates on the…
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I am thrilled to have Juliana Rew here this month to present Third Flatiron Anthologies, one of which is going to be published on 10 March. Juli was so kind to answer a few questions for us. 1. Who is…
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I’ve heard (and read) a lot of good reviews of this movie, so I’ve decided to give it a shot. After all, it’s British and It’s horror, so… impossible not to, right? Here’s the plot, straight from Rotten Tomatoes: “Following…
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Everybody familiar with SF knows about the habitable zone, at least the basics. It’s that area around a star where life is possible. A look at any astronomy educational site would provide a more detailed and technical definition: “The Circumstellar…
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It’s a (well-known) fact -at least for friends&neighbours- that I binge-watch pretty much all horror Netflix and Amazon Prime dare to put online. Horror movies are a habit I developed as a teenager, and I’ve never stopped. But I’ve realised only…
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Some interesting highlights this week (and NO, I’m NOT going to talk about Falcon Heavy. The rest of the world does it, right?). I have something else. New Horizons (the nice cute probe that recently visited Pluto) just snapped 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…
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One of the most interesting news of the last days is the claim, by the University of Alberta, that researchers have used one AI to decode sections of this world-famous manuscript. What’s the hype? Well, the Voynich manuscript is the…
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