Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
It has been a while since I have got across something as interesting as this bizarrely-shaped celestial object that has recently appeared on our system. Its name is Oumuamua, and it has got instant notoriety around the globe. The first…
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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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