Tag: SF
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SF Classics – The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut is a SF novel portraying a Martian invasion of Earth. Its main theme is free will, and…
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Tools for sky lovers (and SF worldbuilders) – eSky
I have already written some time ago about tools for exploring the night sky and find your way around. Today I want to talk…
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Dark Star by Oliver Langmead. A review
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…
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Edinburgh International Book Festival – highlights
For personal reasons (read: baby daughter) I had to cancel my attendance at Sasquan (SF Worldcon 2015) … thus I am determined now to…
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Top Ten Tuesday (August 18) – Top Ten Autobuy Authors
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…
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Writing about science and space for other blogs / 5
This is the periodic update about articles I have contributed in these last months to other blogs. Compared to last year I have been…
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Aye, And Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany
True, Aye, And Gomorrah is by no means a recent story: it has been published in 1967 in that amazing anthology (Dangerous Visions) that I…
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Hugo Award 2015 – How to (not) cast a vote
This year voting for the Hugos has been painful, for a series of reasons – not least because of the so-called Puppygate that has…
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Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a SF/ space opera by James S. A. Corey – i.e. the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.…
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1979 Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム) – where the legend starts
This is post number 4 in the Gundam Multiverse, and it will be devoted to exploring in more detail the amazing Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム),…
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Summer 2015 – Events not to be missed
Summer 2015 promises to be exciting, with a lot of things going on… While I can’t *sigh* possibly attend everything, there are some of them…
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Short stories: spotlight
One thing I’ve always missed about online reviews is that they are normally only taking into account novels – with anthologies as a distant…
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Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Brasyl (2007) is a novel by Ian McDonald. It portrays an original SF thriller set on three different timelines – i.e. Brazil at different…
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Gernsback SF Short Story Writing Contest 2015
If you’re following this blog you already know I contribute articles to Amazing Stories. Today I’d like to talk about the SF short story…
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The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Years of Rice and Salt Quotes (2002) is a Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative fiction novel. It’s one of the most convincing examples of…
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SF Classics – The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is an utopian SF novel. It belongs to the same fictional universe of the Left Hand of…
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Where Gundam fights – locations ガンダムシリーズ
This is post number 3 in the Gundam series, aimed at helping you find your way in the complex multiverse of this amazing franchise…
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SF Classics – Titan by Stephen Baxter
Titan (1997) is a SF/ techno-thriller by Stephen Baxter. It examines Saturn’s moon Titan as the object of a manned mission aiming at discovering…
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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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Deaths of Tao, Rebirths of Tao – Wesley Chu’s amazing trilogy.
I have already written – rather enthusiastically – about the first instalment of this trilogy, The Lives of Tao, saying that the book is an innovative example…
