by ladipaolo | Fri Sep 2019 | Science in Fiction
You may or may not know that there exists an international philosophical movement called Transhumanism, which argues for the transformation of humanity through the adoption of advanced existing or yet-to-be-developed technologies in order to bring about our...
by ladipaolo | Mon May 2019 | Science in Fiction
Foreword: You might wonder, and rightly so, why this topic is in any way related to my fiction. But it is, although in a very indirect manner. Still, the topic is most important, and because I am a biologist, I wished to discuss it when I heard about Impossible...
by ladipaolo | Sat Jan 2019 | Science in Fiction
It is a desire as old as humanity to be able to live forever. Our forefathers exalted eternal life as a gift that could be granted to the faithful or to the pure, and we continue to celebrate and even revere the long-lived; we exalt them in Kung-Fu movies as we do in...
by ladipaolo | Sun Nov 2018 | Science in Fiction
You may wonder what this topic has to do with my novel, which is not a self-help book or a sociological treatise. But though part of the story is set on a planet with a fantasy-like environment, it is a book about the future. And, as I try to peer into this future,...