Articles Tagged with science fiction

Out of our element

Published on November 18, 2025November 17, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Space is dangerous

There are lots of ways for things to go wrong off-Earth.

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Knowing too much

Published on November 11, 2025November 10, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Fictional details

One’s background can get in the way of a good story.

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Correcting misconceptions

Published on July 29, 2025July 28, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Alternative approaches

What is the best way to do popular science?

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Time is against us

Published on March 18, 2025March 16, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Human scales

The universe is often an obstacle to science fiction.

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Getting the stars right

Published on August 13, 2024August 12, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Does it matter?

We wonder how careful a fiction author really needs to be.

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Octopus arithmetic

Published on August 6, 2024August 5, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

How different could it get?

We ponder how to communicate with aliens.

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The limits of the eye

Published on July 12, 2022July 11, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Ordering the planets

There are some things that the naked eye just can’t do.

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Degrees of difficulty

Published on November 24, 2020November 23, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Impossible, inevitable and in between

Some actions in science fiction are much more difficult than others.

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Historical fiction (II)

Published on August 4, 2020August 3, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Parallel genres

We continue a comparison with science fiction.

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Historical fiction (I)

Published on July 28, 2020July 26, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Getting old things right

We note some similarities between genres: SF and HF.

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