Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
…and here we are: finally! The most awaited movie of the year is out next week, and the early reviews are glowing. “A gigantic spectacle of pure hallucinatory craziness.” This is how The Guardian entitled its article, which you can read…
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… simply because the movie is going to premiere on 6 October 2017 and I’ll need to wait until that day. But I make no mystery about the fact this is going to be the event of the year –…
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Dark Star is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting books published in 2015, for many reasons: it’s SF, yet built with the pace and the style of a crime-story. It’s noir and cyberpunk with a touch of mythology. And, yes, it’s…
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) is a novel by Philip K. Dick, a dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, where nuclear radiations make simple things, like the ownership of an animal, a status symbol. Androids are part of…
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“Where in fucktopia are you, Dexter?” Yells Debra Morgan, obviously searching in vain for her brother. Sure thing, Debra did not hint at anything sexual here – even though there are some fictional versions of the universe where sex has an essential…
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