Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Today is the moment of my periodic summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done it in a while). This one features a startling discovery and other interesting topics. As usual,…
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to witness two (different) but related events – both in the field of writing and publishing. One, in Edinburgh, was the second year anniversary of Luna Press Publishing, an independent Scottish small press. Established 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…
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Since I’ve got my Netflix subscription a couple of years ago, the amount of horror I watch has been steadily growing, simply because it’s my favourite background “noise” when I do scientific research (I know, academics are a weird bunch)….
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That our Solar System is an original one, we already know it. Surveys about other planetary systems have confirmed what we already suspected about the odd positions of our gas giants and other features (for a good explanation, read this…
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To horror fans, Edward Lee is a famous name, credited with some of the most incredible tales I’ve read in a while – scary, imaginative, creepy, even disgusting at times, but always well written. I’ve already reviewed one of his…
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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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I normally don’t make any comment on this blog about political news, not because I don’t care, but because I do that in other venues. As a social scientist, I write/do research for a living about political and economic consequences of…
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I have always been an avid consumer of speculative fiction in all forms and format, and recently a writer, too. Therefore it’s always painful when magazines you love go into hiatus – temporary or permanent. In this first month of…
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Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments, so that you can go & pick the ones that interest you the most. Hubble Gazes…
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