October 2016

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The short story “Case 74” by Cristian M. Teodorescu was published for the first time in 2014. It was translated from Romenian by Dan Pirjol.

Roger Clifford committed suicide but the investigation that follows is in a totally unprecedented situation because the victim had somehow transferred his mind into a computer. It’s equipped with next-generation hardware that can faithfully reproduce a person’s mental processes. Is the person who committed suicide dead or not?

"The Avengers" boxset containing season 2 and the surviving episodes of season 1

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Kaleidoscope, a Birmingham-based British non-profit organization specialized in the research and conservation of old television programs, announced that it discovered and acquired a copy of the episode “Tunnel of Fear” of the first season of the TV show “The Avengers”. It’s an extraordinary event because so far of the first season only the first episode’s first act and two complete episodes were available.

The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (Italian Edition)

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The novel “The Rise of Endymion” by Dan Simmons was published for the first time in 1997. It’s the fourth book of the Hyperion Cantos and is the sequel to “Endymion”.

Pope Julius XIV is dead and they have to proceed to a new conclave. When Lenar Hoyt resurrects again, he gets re-elected pope but this time decides to take a different name and becomes Pope Urban XVI. As his first act, he announces a crusade against the Ousters with a new fleet of Archangel class starships.

Raul Endymion is on Earth with Aenea but it comes time to resume their journeys. The two of them must separate for a certain period and the trip creates between the two of them a time lag so when they meet again on the planet T’ien Shan Aenea is 21 years old. There Aenea is considered a messianic or even a divine figure but the most difficult part of her journey is still to come.

Illustration of Drepanosaurus (Image courtesy Victor Leshyk. All rights reserved)

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An article published in the journal “Current Biology” describes the study of fossils of Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus, a reptile that lived in the Triassic period, about 212 million years ago. The discovery complete fossils of this animal in New Mexico allowed to carry out detailed exams which confirmed that it had very strong forelimbs with a huge claw and an anatomic conformation definitely out of the normal that surprised the paleontologists.