2022

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

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The novel “The Dark Forest” by Liu Cixin was published for the first time in 2008. It was translated into English by Joel Martinsen. It’s the second book of the trilogy known as The Three-Body Problem or Remembrance of Earth’s Past and follows “The Three-Body Problem”.

The threat of the Trisolarans has become public knowledge, and this includes the use of sophons by the aliens to interfere with scientific advances on Earth. The aliens’ strategies have been discovered but it’s difficult to find countermeasures knowing that the enemy is listening.

The strategy that is established is to create a very small group of Wallfacers, four people who can have access to any resource to create a defense plan that must not be communicated to anyone. However, the humans who work with the Trisolarans assign each of them a Wallbreaker to discover their plan and make it public.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Mercy (Image courtesy Paramount+ / Amazon Prime Video)

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“Mercy” is the eighth episode of the second season of the TV show “Star Trek: Picard” and follows “Monsters”. It’s available in the USA on the Paramount+ streaming platform and in many other countries on Amazon Prime Video.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Guinan (Ito Aghayere) find themselves in the awkward situation of having to answer questions from Agent Martin Welles (Jay Karnes), who seems to have a lot of information about them and the rest of La Sirena’s crew. Kore Soong (Isa Briones) receives unexpected help in her search for the truth about her origin.

A map of the habitats of the various human species

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An article published in the journal “Nature” reports the results of a research on the correlation between climate changes that occurred over the last two million years and the evolution of human beings. A team of researchers led by Axel Timmermann, director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan ​​National University, South Korea, used ICCP’s Aleph supercomputer to simulate climate history. The results were compared with the largest database of human fossils and archaeological artifacts built under the direction of Pasquale Raia of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. The result was that the best habitats for the human species that existed in these two million years match the climatic changes caused by the oscillation of the Earth’s axis and the periodic changes in the shape of the Earth’s orbit.

The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock

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The novel “The Coming of the Terraphiles” by Michael Moorcock was published for the first time in 2010.

The dark tides are undermining the stability of the multiverse and will cause it to collapse if something isn’t done. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond travel to the Miggea system, on the borders between various universes, for an activity that doesn’t seem related to the imminent collapse: participating in a sports competition.

The Doctor and Amy joined a group of people who are meant to reenact all things about Old Earth. This includes ancient sports or at least the interpretation they give of them. The key to the salvation of the multiverse seems to be tied to that competition but the prize also piques the interest of an old enemy of the Doctor: Captain Cornelius and his pirate crew.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Guinan (Ito Aghayere) in Monsters (Image courtesy Paramount+ / Amazon Prime Video)

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“Monsters” is the seventh episode of the second season of the TV show “Star Trek: Picard” and follows “Two of One”. It’s available in the USA on the Paramount+ streaming platform and in many other countries on Amazon Prime Video.

Tallinn (Orla Brady) tries to help Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) deal with the monsters that exist in the depth of his mind leading him to discover a hidden part of his parents’ story. 7 of 9 (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) search for Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill) and discover that La Sirena’s systems are compromised. Chris Rios (Santiago Cabrera) is forced to reveal at least part of the truth to Dr. Teresa Ramirez (Sol Rodríguez).