Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
In case you have never heard of it, Helix is an American SF/ thriller TV series aired by Syfy. The plot: a team of scientists from CDC travels into two different locations (series 1: a research facility in the Arctic….
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We are less than one month from the Grand Finale, the moment Cassini is going to plunge deep into Saturn. As you can read on the NASA web page, “between April and September 2017, Cassini will undertake a daring set…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray has been since its publication in 1890 a popular, albeit controversial, subject, and its cultural influence long-lasting, certainly more than other books of the same kind, including the French À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans that…
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This should read more as the space news of the month, both for timing and relevance. Yes, because in these last days we heard a lot about some (surprising is the mildest adjective I can use) discoveries and other interesting…
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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…
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It is always interesting to read good non-fiction books about SFF&H, and when it happens to be an informed reflection on a genre as complex as fantasy, it’s definitively a treat. This is the case of latest AJ Dalton’s non-fiction…
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This is a post in the series of speculative fiction podcasts, and the fourth interview for “Seven Questions with your favourite SFF podcast editors” (for the previous ones, see this).This week I feature Mariah Avix, editor of 600 Second Saga, a…
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What Hubble Space Telescope is, everybody knows – it’s the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, back in 1990. As explained on NASA’s website, being “above the distortion of the atmosphere, far far above rain clouds and…
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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…
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An otherwise unremarkable small, cool and rather faint (19 magnitude, less than Pluto, just to be clear) dwarf star located 39.5 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius, Trappist 1 has become in the last two weeks or so…
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