Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Jupiter War is the third and last book of the Owner trilogy, where the adventures of the rebel Alan Saul, his sister Var, the despotic Earth’s dictator Galahad and the Argus Space Station now come to an end. It’s difficult…
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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
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Warning: This is a R-Rating book. Unsuitable for YAs and anybody with a delicate stomach – it’s extremely graphic, to say the least. However, it is also a good book, and if you are a horror fan, it’s definitively worth a…
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Ever desired to destroy entire planetary systems? Now you can, with the online game Super Planet Crash, available (and playable) at http://www.stefanom.org/spc. You may actually find that building a functioning system is more fun than just provoking celestial catastrophies. And here…
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What follows is a guest post (for info about how to contribute posts to this page, please look up at Guest Area Section). The original version of this book review, genre fantasy, has been uploaded on Amazon Italy as a verified book…
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One of the most interesting things about conventions – Eastercon doesn’t make any exception to this rule – is the possibility given to the participant to understand the milieu, i.e., how the discipline itself stops being an abstraction only existing…
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Well, here we are. It looks like it’s going to be a great event. Hosted in the Convention Centre, on the banks of River Clyde and in front of BBC Glasgow, the area is as suitable for an event as…
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Every year on April, 12 the world remembers with emotion the amazing achievement of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to watch Earth from space. 53 years ago mankind reached the ultimate frontier. Something to be rightly celebrated and I did it…
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When a book starts like The Descent does, with the protagonist blaming himself to be a stalker, pervert, drug-addict, conspiracy theorist, and “fuck it. Compared to all the other things I have to be ashamed of, what I’m doing right…
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i.e, what else is fake in space? A funny video I watched a few days ago (that I also advise to anybody interested in sci-fi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9lJh2tBk2s&feature=share) is about all the inconsistencies, errors, when not outward lies, about space we were…
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