"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Cara Trenitalia, Quando ero ragazza, ogni tanto mi capitava di prendere il treno da Milano a Tirano, per raggiungere i miei genitori in vacanza sul lago. È un viaggio verso nord, attraverso la Brianza Felix, che molto presto trasforma la campagna in una collina boscosa e...
We've been watching Murderbot, a tv series on AppleTv starring Alexander Skarsgård (the guy who thought this picture would be the best way to officially represent him on IMDB), David Dastmalchian (he was Piter De Vries in the latest Dune, some of you might remember...
ONE evening — twilight in spring, a young English student, who had wandered northwards as far as the outlying fragments of Scotland called the Orkney and Shetland Islands, found himself on a small island of the latter group, caught in a storm of wind and...
The collection is extraordinary and spans from grand feats of sci-fi imagination (the titular story) to humorous tales such as the one in which a writer called Cixin Liu becomes homeless after spending all his money and energy on a grand saga called The Three-Thousand-Body...
Well, this was a fairly unusual read for me in this period, I'm more in my sci-fi era, but good things come from good friends who gift you books you wouldn't have bought: they usually help you discover something cool you didn't know. What I discovered...
[Redactor's note: In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889; p. 662. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of...
Yoshitaka Amano's Angel's Egg, it's the simple answer: a 1985 animated movie directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell). Following Amano's exhibition here in Italy and the movie's anniversary, it had been re-released in theatres but I had missed, I was curious, so I...
“Advanced BIM”: what does that even mean? “Advanced BIM” is one of those expressions that sound authoritative and yet, when you ask what it actually describes, the answers become very vague very quickly. The statement doesn't mean anything, and it drives me crazy equally quickly. In...
I arose the next morning almost at daybreak, and rushed to my microscope, I trembled as I sought the luminous world in miniature that contained my all. Animula was there. I had left the gas-lamp, surrounded by its moderators, burning when I went to bed...
