Tag: aliens
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Our outer space citizens, right now
If you accept the idea that everyone/everything NOT living on planet Earth for all or most of their lives is a spacenoid (questionable as…
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Outer Space and Martin Rees – reading suggestions
Every space lover has heard of Martin Rees, I bet. He’s (among other things) a UK Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and…
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Wordbuilding -Creating your alien life
I have already written in the past about how alien (in the sense of odd) nature can possibly be. Today I’d like to explore the…
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Space Features of the Week (26 May)
It has been a while since I’ve done this, so I think a quick roundup of some interesting space and science features recently in…
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Best of 2017 (astro) news
At -2 (or 1, depending on which part of the globe you’re based) to 2018, it’s the moment for a quick recap of 2017…
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Blindsight by Peter Watts
Blindsight (2006), by Peter Watts, is a hard SF novel of first contact with a unique twist. It asks difficult questions about the nature of…
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Tabby’s Star, Aliens, WTF – The Controversy is still on
The idea for this articles comes out of a discussion with Roberto Flaibani. Roberto, whose name has already appeared here in some guest posts…
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SF Classics – The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
The Fountains of Paradise (1979) is SF novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It discusses for the first time the possibility of space elevators linking…
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Dreaming of Dyson Spheres
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…
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Broadcasting Earth to the aliens – NASA Soundcloud
Not satisfied with having already uploaded an amazing series of recording about space events and planetary radio emissions, and even created a radio (Third…
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Apollo 18 (2011) – A review
“There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the Moon.” This is how the opening line on the movie’s website, a American-Canadian SF/ horror…
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SF Classics – The Uplift War by David Brin
The Uplift War (1987) is a SF novel by David Brin and part of the Uplift Universe. It portraits a fictional future universe where…
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All the (Egyptian) names of Rosetta
Not happy with having discovered many of the secrets of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko thanks to the Rosetta mission and its Philae probe, ESA-Rosetta team scientists have…
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SF Classics – Ringworld by Larry Niven
Ringworld (1970) by Larry Niven, is the first of a series of stories – including prequels and sequels – set in a version of…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Spin (2005) by Robert Charles Wilson, describes a future Earth that a race of powerful aliens, the Hypotheticals, have put in protective cocoon –…
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Writing about space for other blogs
I have started since a couple of months or so to contribute to a great blog called Serious Wonder, one of the most innovative…
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SF Classics – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
” The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury is a 1950 science fiction short story collection that follows a future history structure and tells the…
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How alien is nature?
If there is an endless debate in SF, it’s about the capability of humans to imagine an alien world, with alien species. At least…
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SF Classics – Childhood’s end, by Arthur C. Clarke
“Childhood’s End” is a 1953 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, and one of the most famous SF books ever. Originally a short…
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The Drake Equation – Why do we still bother?
“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…
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Woof! I have a place in space – Laika, the first mammal in orbit
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…
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When Foucault’s Pendulum meets Men in Black – The Descent by Ken Macleod. A book review
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.…
