The Best Of R.A. Lafferty (book review).
R.A. Lafferty aka Raphael Aloysius Lafferty or simply Ray Lafferty (1914-2002) has a lot of fans, hardly surprising when you
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Exobiotica: the art and science of speculative biology (science video).
The amazing artist Michael Beaudry’s speculative biology project “Exobiotica” aspires to provide a glimpse into the vast alien ecology of
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Stephen Webb discusses the most frightening explanations for the Fermi Paradox (science video).
Where have all the extraterrestrials gone? Is it even possible to find an answer to the Fermi Paradox? Dr. Stephen
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House Of The Dragon: oh, it’s a good’un (fantasy TV series: full series 1 review).
Nobody expected much from HBO’s House of the Dragon, least of all C.D., especially after the disastrous conclusion to Game
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The Midwich Cuckoos (2022) (DVD TV series review).
As I don’t watch the digital pay channels, bear in mind I have nothing to compare ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’ to
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The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix horror film: trailer).
The Pale Blue Eye will be available on Netflix starting January 6th, 2023 – it’s a gothic horror movie based
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Crashed starships & shipwrecked spacecraft: an interesting science fiction trope (video).
There are a lot of stories in science fiction, notes Issac Arthur, that include spaceships becoming damaged or crashing… but
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Why was Quantum Entanglement awarded the Physics Nobel Prize?
In most cases, the Nobel Prize in Physics is given to researchers who explain the workings of the natural world,
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36th Arthur C. Clarke Award goes to author Harry Josephine Giles (award news).
The 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year has been announced. Said UK-based award
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So, what the heck does it mean if humanity is all alone in the galaxy? (science video)
The god-king of scientific thought experiments, John Michael Godier, leaps into a creepy investigation of the hypothesis that there is
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