"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."
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...
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...
Byung-Chul Han is a contemporary German philosopher born in Korea whose work explores the transformation of subjectivity, power, and social relations in late modern and digital societies. In the Swarm fits within this broader inquiry, focusing specifically on the effects of digital communication on perception,...
I discovered The Apothecary Diaries through the anime on Netflix: I generally don't like them but we're not getting good animation, I was desperate, and what caught my eye were the beautiful backgrounds in some of the promos. Then I switched to the manga. I...
This is the second book I read by this author, and I bought it for two reasons: I’m very fond of the world of illustrations, in every realm; I wanted to figure out whether the author’s faults in my previous read (The Making of Kubrick’s 2001: A...
The three months succeeding Simon's catastrophe I devoted night and day to my diamond lens. I had constructed a vast galvanic battery, composed of nearly two thousand pairs of plates: a higher power I dared not use, lest the diamond should be calcined. By means...
