In 1962, in Profiles of the Future, Arthur C. Clarke pronounce what we commonly call the Three Clarke’s Laws: « When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he… Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Nebula award
The Nebula award is an award attributed each year since 1965 by the Science Fiction and Fatasy Writers of America association to an innovative science fiction work. This award is attributed only to an American author and reward the four … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Hugo award
The Hugo award is a prestigious award attributed every year since 1939 to the best anglophone stories of the previous year during the Word Science Fiction Convention. The categories are very diversified (there are 17 of them!) in very … Lire la suite... |
[The title is a stain] (Short story)
Ma note : The story« What is this stain on the wall? It looks like ink, but darker than the night itself. Maybe fatigue. I blink… and it disappears. Not quite. It’s on the … Lire la suite... |
Recessional (Short story)
© 1961 – Fredric Brown Published for the first time in the collection Nightmares and Geezenstacks in 1961, this very short story by Fredric Brown tells the fight lead by a soldier in the war opposing the Whites (his camp) … Lire la suite... |
The Caves of steel – Isaac Asimov
Ma note : The storyOn this overpopulated Earth, the agoraphobic men live in giant underground anthill-cities with many dozens of millions people. Covered with domes, they protect their inhabitants from the view of the … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Dyson sphere
A Dyson sphere is a space structure imagined in 1959 by the physicist Freeman Dyson, constituted by an artificial sphere entirely surrounding a star to collect all its radiations for energetic and industrial endings. Frequently, in S.F., the spherical form … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Stanford torus
A Stanford torus is a space structure constituted with one or two rings (torus) which would spin around to simulate the terrestrial gravity. A 1 mile diameter torus and rotating at 1 RPM could produce a gravity equivalent to the … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – 42
According to Douglas Adams, “42” is the answer to the Big Question about Life, the Universe and Everything in his Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. At last, now that we have the answer, we just have to find the … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Bernal sphere
Imagined as soon as 1929 by the scientist John Desmond Bernal, a Bernal sphere is a space megastructure initially constituted with a 10 miles diameter sphere filled with air for a 30 000 individuals population. In its original version, the … Lire la suite... |
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