Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
2014 will be a year to remember for space missions. No matter what achievements are awaiting us in the future (hopefully plenty), the last 12 months have seen something that will remain in history. I’m going to mention here only few…
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In addition to astrophysics and space exploration, I do also write articles about another of my favourite subjects, science in science-fiction, on this blog and elsewhere. The ones listed below have appeared in summer 2014 on Amazing Stories. Arrakis and Single…
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There are two things about this odd yet fascinating book worth mentioning straight away. The first is that, albeit featuring a seventeen-year old boy, it’s definitively not a YA story, under any standard. More: it is not the kind of book…
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The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) is a fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe. It is the first of four volumes in The Book of the New Sun series, and tells the story of Severian, an apprentice in the torturers’ guild….
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If you were dreaming about the day we are going to leave and explore the Solar System, take space elevators down to Mars and sky-diving over the Ligeia Mare on Titan, look no further. Wanderers, by Erik Wernquist, is a…
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Here I am. Just finished validating my draft of 50,932 words. I barely believe I made it – but those words came somehow out from my Mac, and the screenshot is there to prove it. Wow. What my novel was…
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When thinking about VR (Virtual Reality) a lot of things come to mind – to me, videogames are the first, followed by other, more scientific, applications. What I have recently discovered, instead, is that NASA has been quite active in…
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Post number five in the exoplanet series, covering this time the important aspect of size. (In case you are interested to other variables examined so far, here they are: habitability, age, distance, temperature). After that in April 2014 a Earth-size planet…
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The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman is a military science fiction novel, telling the story of William Mandella, a soldier of the United Nations Exploratory Force that fights an interstellar war against the alien Taurans. Widely believed to be…
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This is a guest post by Chango (for contributing posts here have a look at this). The original version of these two book reviews, genre YA-fantasy, has been uploaded on Amazon Italy as a verified purchase. I’ve put them together…
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