The Cutest (not) Animals
I was shocked when looking back over this blog to discover that I don’t have an entry on Tardigrades. They are absolutely one of my favorite ‘animals’, and they deserve more publicity. I may even have done a piece on …
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Typing Telepathically
The concept of brain-computer-interfaces has been floating around for a while now and has become more prevalent in the media, but the idea can still seem a bit ‘sci-fi’. Today in When Science Fiction Becomes Reality, I’ll be exploring a …
Why Can’t We Freeze Ourselves? – The Limits for Interstellar Travel
The concept of ‘stasis’ has been a staple of science fiction for a long time. How else could you get your characters from point A to point B—light years apart—unless you invoke faster than light travel. Or what about the …
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Aliens on Venus
Well, it’s not the planet we expected, but it might be the planet we get. Recent research has come out suggesting that our near neighbor Venus might be hiding a little more than we ever expected, i.e. alien life! Now …
Red Sister – Book Review
TL:DR: 5 Stars. Read it. Love it. Buy the next one. Mark Lawrence is a genius. I’m pretty confident on that. I’ve read a lot of his stuff in the last year (I was pretty late to the Prince of …
The Invincible Mould
If you thought Superman was tough, wait till you hear about this mould! In this week’s When Science Fiction Becomes Reality, I’m looking at an amazing mould which has been collected from Sverdrup Pass, Canada. This mould has been trapped under …
The Way of Shadows – Book Review
TL;DR 5/5 stars, dark, action-packed, gut-wrenching The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city’s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival …
The Dirty Streets of Heaven – Book Review
TL;DR 4/5 stars, intrigue, action, worth reading Way back, in the land before time, I read some of Tad Williams’ traditional fantasy (it had a quest and a magic sword and a gawky boy and everything), so imagine my surprise …
The Smallest Movie in the World
This week in When Science Fiction Becomes Reality I want to talk about a very exciting, but also fun, project which IBM recently completed. They have made a movie by moving single atoms around to create a stop-motion animation: “A Boy and …
Mistborn – Book Review
TL;DR It’s amazing, 5/5, buy it and read it now. Brandon Sanderson is probably one of my favorite authors. He’s one of the few writers that I will go out of my way to buy, even if it costs outrageous …