Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I could not avoid checking out. It ended with me reading everything – and I repeat, everything…
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Prey (2002) is a novel by Michael Crichton, and, as others of the same author, presents unintended consequences of newly discovered technologies and scientific wonders. In this case, nanotechnologies, genetic engineering and swarm intelligence get the spotlights. Fascinating and scary.
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 at a philosophical level, it seems an impossible task – how to imagine something we have…
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“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 story called “Guardian Angel” (1946). Portraying a puzzled humanity, benevolent aliens (the Overlords) and frightening children….
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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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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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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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Glasgow 18-21 April 2014, in what promises to be a great event. Puzzled? Eastercon (http://www.eastercon.org/index.php/Main_Page) is just another name for the British yearly science-fiction convention, and as the name says, it is held over the four days of the Easter…
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