2020

Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

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The novel “Acceptance” by Jeff VanderMeer was published for the first time in 2014. It’s the third book of the Southern Reach trilogy and follows “Authority”.

Area X is expanding transforming other portions of territory into somewhat alien places. The Southern Reach is in chaos and Control attempts another expedition with Ghost Bird. Together, the two of them go into Area X until they reach the lighthouse that seems essential to get answers, but will they be enough?

Many years earlier, the lighthouse was a normal place and Saul Evans had become its guardian. A former preacher, he’s looking for a serenity he’s missing following traumatic events. The new beginning is also marked by his friendship with Gloria, a little girl who lives nearby. Complications of various kinds threaten to wreak havoc in Saul’s life again.

Massospondylus carinatus skeleton reconstruction

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An article published in the “Scientific Reports” journal reports a 3D reconstruction of some of the oldest known dinosaur embryos, which belong to the species Massospondylus carinatus. Kimberley “Kimi” Chapelle, Vincent Fernandez, and Jonah Choiniere subjected the fossils to a very special CT-scan, an exam that was conducted at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, using an 844-meter-long particle accelerator. The result is that the eggs containing those embryos fossilized when they were at about 60% of their development, which is similar to that of some of the closest relatives of the dinosaurs existing today: crocodiles, chickens, turtles and lizards.

Diving into The Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Italian edition)

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The novella “Diving into The Wreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch was published for the first time in 2009. It’s part of the Diving Universe.

Boss hired a team to explore the wreckage of a spaceship she found drifting in space. Potentially, it’s a treasure because the artifacts she could recover can be worth a lot of money and ancient lost technologies can be worth a real fortune. The recovery operations are always dangerous because it’s impossible to know what you can find in a wreck, especially when it seems to date back to millennia before and it’s in a place in space very far from those that such ancient spaceships could reach.

Norman Reedus in 2017

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The 10th season was produced and broadcast almost all in the format that have become usual: 15 episodes of which 8 were broadcast in October / November 2019 and 7 in February / April 2020. The season finale was postponed to a date yet to be determined because post-production was interrupted when the Covid-19 emergency broke out. The problem could hit the whole saga and has already caused the delay of the airing of the new spinoff “The Walking Dead: Beyond World” as its debut is now announced generically for later in 2020.

The tenth season is entirely dedicated to the clash between the various communities and the Whisperers. There’s a new leap forward from the end of the ninth season, but only a few months. The situation seems to indicate a truce, but it’s clear from the beginning that there’s no real peace and that something can happen at any time.

Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Naomi Mitchison (Italian edition)

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The novel “Memoirs of a Spacewoman” by Naomi Mitchison was published for the first time in 1962.

Mary is a spacewoman expert in communications with alien species. Ther means that in the course of her travels through the cosmos and encounters with various sentient species she contributes to improving relationships between humans and the natives of the various planets visited. A cardinal rule prohibits any interference in other societies, but she can have personal relationships with aliens.

Scientific interest can mix with relationships that can also be sexual in nature, and Mary ends up having children not only from other human beings but also with a Martian. In relationships with aliens, differences can enrich, but can also lead to problems, especially when children are born.