Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
With NaNoWriMo 2015 half on its way I decided to say a few words about my favourite word processor. While I understand there’s a learning curve and a writing challenge is probably not the best moment to try a new…
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This one landed on my (virtual) desk a couple of weeks ago or so, and I find it so nice I couldn’t avoid joining, especially because it’s somebody that loves speculative fiction as much as I do that nominated me. So…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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Way too many things in November for people like me that love speculative fiction… but two are the ones I’m going to join. The first one is the 50K-words-a-month writing challenges, also called NaNoWriMo, which I have already signed for and completed in…
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“The classic advice to writers is “Write about what you know.” But if you’re a science fiction writer, you often write about what you do not know: things no one has seen, rooted in a body of knowledge no one…
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That Enceladus is one of the most spectacular moons in the Solar System is already known – for many reasons, including pure aesthetic ones. The frozen moon with its ice plumes and crater-ridden surface is a familiar pretty view, especially…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut is a SF novel portraying a Martian invasion of Earth. Its main theme is free will, and the possibility for humanity of ever achieving it – a constant issue in Vonnegut’s work and…
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If there is a famous image for Jupiter, it’s for sure the one of its Great Read Spot, which is a giant, spinning, fast travelling storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere – a sort of huge hurricane, about twice the size of Earth…
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A recent discovery by Kepler, the planet hunter, has got everybody in the scientific community excited, as a brief look to this week’s news can prove. An otherwise quite ordinary, sun-like star called KIC 8462852 has been found characterised by bizarre dips in…
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