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,...
by ladipaolo | Thu Aug 2018 | Science in Fiction
Microbe-Generated Electricity The production of electricity by bacteria is a topic which has interested me for a long time, even from before I started writing Conquerors of K’Tara. Of course, we humans are also capable of generating electricity, but we do so...
