Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences…
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The Algebraist (2004) by Iain M. Banks, is an SF novel that combines space opera, fantasy and spy story in an overwhelming mix. Set in a non-Culture universe, it features intergalactic space travel, mighty aliens, AIs and ruthless systems, one…
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This is a guest post by Caroline Black (for contributing posts here have a look at this), sharing this week her favourite SF podcasts. If you’re a SciFi lover like me, chances are you can literally never get enough of…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences…
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The Rise of Endymion (1997) by Dan Simmons is the fourth and latest instalment of the Hyperion Cantos, and set in the same fictional universe of Hyperion, even though a few centuries later. Complex, political, and more literary than many…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences…
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The Time Ships (1995) is Stephen Baxter’s first SF novel. Its particularity lies in the fact that it is an (authorised) sequel to The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. It relates the story of the Time Traveller, which embarks…
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Getting to know the space out there in a more scientific way has never been as simple (I wouldn’t say easy, since it still requires hours of study and efforts) as it is nowadays. Not only there are large online…
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The Last Days on Mars, otherwise said, Zombies meet Aliens in The Martian’s setting – without all the quality and the thrill. This is, in short, what you can expect from this movie, ignored by the SF fandom for a (good) reason….
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The Fountains of Paradise (1979) is SF novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It discusses for the first time the possibility of space elevators linking Earth with geosynchronous satellites, in something that looks now on the verge of becoming a viable…
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