CienciaFiccionarios

The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood Knife The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?

Iain Banks no amaba a los megamultimillonarios. ¿Entonces por qué los megamultimillonarios aman tanto a Iain Banks?

We’ve Already Seen Category 6 Hurricanes—Now Scientists Want to Make It Official - Eos Intensifying storms may warrant a new category of hurricane wind speeds.

El calentamiento global está creando huracanes tan bravos que habrá que agrandar la escala para medirlos.

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for February 9, 2023 It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with Masters ...

Otro viernes, otro reporte de Cora Buhlert.

3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in a DDoS attack. Really What's next, malware-infected dental floss? But seriously: It's a reminder that even the smallest smart home devices can be a threat. Here's how to protect yourself.

El ataque de los tres millones de cepillos de dientes:

How to Build an Origami Computer | Quanta Magazine Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation.

Alguien descubrió que el origami es una máquina de Turing:

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for January 26, 2023 It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with a massiv...

indiespecfic.blogspot.com/2024/01/spec...

Kim Stanley Robinson on the Future of Narrative and Civilization - Possible

Entrevista con Kim Stanley Robinson

WKAR Specials | Afrofantastic: The Transformative World of Afrofuturism | PBS This documentary explores the definition and activism linked to Afrofuturism.

Minidocumental sobre afrofuturismo

Best YA of 2023: David Bowles | Kirkus Reviews The author of ‘The Prince & the Coyote,’ illustrated by Amanda Mijangos, answers questions about one of the best teen books of the year.

Kirkus has a cool interview with me up on their website. Check it out!

Entrevista a Malka Older / Some Thoughts with ... Malka Older Hemos tenido el placer de entrevistar a Malka Older con motivo de la publicación de La Imitación de los Éxitos ya Conocidos (ESP/ENG)

Entrevista con Malka Older:

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for December 8, 2023 It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the best...

Vuelve el reporte semanal de Cora Buhler con todo lo que está pasando en el mundillo de la ciencia ficción.

Police to use 'Minority Report' technology to predict crimes before they happen Project CDAP could see machine learning tools track criminal gangs - including those involved in drugs, child abuse and terrorism

Policía predictiva. ¿Qué puede salir mal?

I cannot stress this enough, but: do not buy "writing advice" books from people whose only writing credit is said writing advice book.

Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian... The soldier of the future will be "flooded with pain-numbing stimulants," cybernetically enhanced, and, one official sort-of joked, must be eventually "terminated."

Así, como si nada, se acaba de organizar una conferencia sobre supersoldados.

Once again, Brazil's CCXP is the biggest comic convention in America Yes, even bigger than San Diego Comic Con and New York Comic Con.

CCXP, la convención más grande de América

Who Put the "Punk" in Steampunk? The Roots of Steampunk Has steampunk lost its edge? What began as a kind of protest against the constraints and conventions of Victorian and Golden Age science fiction has evolved ...

¿Quién puso el punk en el steampunk?

Hot Air Balloons: The Ultimate Fantasy Vehicle? I took my first hot air balloon flight when I was but a young lad, somewhere in my early teens. Waking up at five in the morning proved the most difficult part—once I’d surmounted that hurdle…

Sobre zepelines:

Our Urban Future Arcologies in science fiction

Megaciudades en la ciencia ficción:

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

mattgoldberg.substack.com/p/the-false-...

magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/the-best-spe...

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Y si les gusta el boletín de Cora Buhlert, les gustará el boletín de Jason Sanford:
www.patreon.com/posts/88237737

Como cada viernes, aquí está el reporte semanal de Cora Buhlert sobre el mundillo de la ciencia ficción.
indiespecfic.blogspot.com/2023/08/spec...

Everything is content now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtb...

Blue Beetle is a Charming, Small-Scale Superhero Throwback… Until It Isn’t This discussion of Blue Beetle, the latest DC film by Warner Bros., contains spoilers. The most interesting thing about Ángel Manuel Soto’s Blue Beetle is how small it feels. Part of this is a resu...

Blue Beetle is a Charming, Small-Scale Superhero Throwback... Until It Isn't (escapistmagazine.com)

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for August 18, 2023 It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with season 2...

Como cada viernes, aquí está el reporte semanal de Cora Buhlert.
https://indiespecfic.blogspot.com/2023/08/speculative-fiction-links-of-week-for_0591964573.html

“Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.” -- Ted Chiang

Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for August 11, 2023 It's time for the latest weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with the 2023...

Aquí está el reporte semanal de Cora Buhlert con todo lo que está pasando en el mundillo de la ciencia ficción.
https://indiespecfic.blogspot.com/2023/08/speculative-fiction-links-of-week-for_01859728969.html

“No hace falta quemar libros si el mundo empieza a llenarse de gente que no lee, que no aprende, que no sabe.” -- Bradbury en Fahrenheit 451