Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
For personal reasons (read: baby daughter) I had to cancel my attendance at Sasquan (SF Worldcon 2015) … thus I am determined now to make the best of my stay at home during this summer and enjoy the amazing Edinburgh…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish (we are all fond of lists, aren’t we?), where each week bloggers are given a new Top Ten theme to blog about. This is time is the…
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Descent (2014) is the latest novel of the Scottish writer Ken MacLeod. Set up in a near future, it follows a young man’s life among conspiracy theories, alien abduction and strange UFOs in the Uk skies. Provoking, brilliant and utterly…
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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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