The novelette “Lot’s Daughter” by Ward Moore was published for the first time in 1954. It’s the sequel to “Lot”.
A few years after the atomic war, Mr. Jimmon survives with his daughter Erika and the son they had in the meantime. The three of them follow a routine dictated by the demands of their lives isolated from other possible survivors. Mr. Jimmon isn’t very happy, but one day something changes.
The novelette “Lot” by Ward Moore was published for the first time in 1953.
When nuclear was breaks out, the Jimmon family is ready. Mr. Jimmon prepared anything that could be useful to their survival so they can quickly leave after loading everything on their car. He had discussed about it with his family just to be ready, but since the beginning of the trip tension seem to come not from external dangers but by their bickering with each other, which test the unity of the family.
In recent years the range of really tiny and very cheap computers has increased tremendously. A few days ago, a fundraiser started for one of these called C.H.I.P. that immediately had an incredible success. Next Thing Co. is a company based in Oakland, California, USA, which aims to offer a PC for just $9. To do this it needed to raise $50,000 and while I’m writing $943.501 were already pledged. The fundraiser will continue until June 6, 2015.
The novel “The Ballad of Beta-2” by Samuel R. Delany was published for the first time in 1965.
A expedition of starships that left in 2242 for a multi-generational journey had a negative result. Two of the starships arrived without passengers, killed by mysterious causes. The passengers survived on the other starships reached their destination but only to find settlers who arrived before them thanks to a faster-than-light propulsion developed after their departure.
Joneny is a student charged by his anthropology professor to make a historical analysis of one of the ballads that tell the story of the expedition of the “Star Folk”, “The Ballad of Beta-2”. Joneny starts investigating to find the sources of the ballad, with the difficulty that the text was modified over time. His findings will be truly amazing, also thanks to a strange encounter.
In an article published in the journal “Nature”, an international team of researchers described the discovery of new microbes that constitute a missing link in the evolution of complex cells, those of eukaryotes. They were called Lokiarchaeota because they were found in a hydrothermal vent in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Norway called Loki’s Castle.
