“Why not build the equator? Much cheaper.” Alamy Stock Photo Someone told me about dyson spheres in the mid-1970s. Maybe it was Poul Anderson. Freeman Dyson’s revolutionary construction had habitats and widgetry of any description about a star. The point was, earthly telescopes could find foreign lives by looking at certain stars. I absorbed science … Read more
Michel nieva and his novel, dengue boy We’ve read all magic forms in New Scientist Book Club from Octavia E. Butler’s classic slice of dystopian fiction, Parable of the soFor space research in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay. Michel Nieva’s Dengue boy (And this is not the article for you if you are you to read … Read more
The moon has turned to cheese in John Scalzi’s new sci-fi novel Madeleine Steinbach / Alamy Stock Photo My only complaint about science fiction to be published in March is: How in the world are we meant to find time to read all these great novels? There are so many must-feeds out this month when … Read more
A dark moon is the rent for Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new sci-fi novel Hylster Laperruque / Alamy Humanoid mosquitoes, foreign contact on deadly moons, implants that let you know that your partner is thinking … Science Fiction novels offered in February feel interesting and I look forward to transporting myself to others Worlds in this cold, … Read more