Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
One of the things that has changed the most for star lovers in these last years is the sheer availability of software that allows you to explore the universe and learn its fantastic features. Some even come in modular forms,…
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Teaser Tuesdays 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 somewhere on that page • BE…
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Brasyl (2007) is a novel by Ian McDonald. It portrays an original SF thriller set on three different timelines – i.e. Brazil at different moments of its history: past, present and a dystopian future. Dark, compelling and politically engaged, it…
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You can’t say Andrew Piper’s new novel has an original title. Checking on Amazon I have found a few books with identical or similar names (and I don’t even mention close relatives, like my favourite Dostoevsky’s novel, Demons). When you open…
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If you’re following this blog you already know I contribute articles to Amazing Stories. Today I’d like to talk about the SF short story contest the e-zine has launched this year named after Hugo Gernsback (yes, he’s the one the Hugo Awards…
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Yes, you read it correctly. With New Horizon’s historical mission, the first era of planetary exploration – where we have explored all planets of our solar system – comes to an end. But this is also a new beginning. From…
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That’s done – migration and everything. No matter all the information I have collected beforehand and precautions adopted, it has NOT been a smooth process. To get everything back in place has taken me a couple of weeks, and I…
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The Years of Rice and Salt Quotes (2002) is a Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative fiction novel. It’s one of the most convincing examples of alternate history – set in a world where the Black Death in 1348 has killed 99%…
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There’s no way this series can be labelled anything else. Certainly not historical tout-court, for the reasons I will explain below. I don’t normally review TV Series, but this one got my attention. I have also to say that, apart…
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If like me you are a 3D printing and an astronomy fan, and you have time to spare this weekend, there’s something out there you might want to try: printing and assembling your truly own (tiny) Chandra X-ray Observatory. What’s Chandra, anyway?…
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