Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
This year voting for the Hugos has been painful, for a series of reasons – not least because of the so-called Puppygate that has ravaged the web in the last months. The whole story has started to look like House of…
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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 of a techno/sci-fi thriller and that I looked forward to the rest of the trilogy. That’s…
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Busy time ahead, and the books piling up on my desk are now starting to look like the Great Wall. Some are ARCs from Netgalley, others are e-books I have purchased on a whim (shouldn’t I know better? I would need three lifetimes…
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That SF is becoming less anglocentric is an exciting and much-welcomed novelty, and I’m not talking here (just) about language, but also culture and tropes. It often results in a fascinating and compelling mix of different worlds and traditions, like in the case…
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