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Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, …
I love all literary genres, with a preference for quality fiction, sci-fi and history. I love technology, and I am old enough to remember how rosy the future looked when the Internet started becoming widespread, and the end of the cold war was at hand. I hope to be able to help new generations to go back to having a rosier look at the future, as I had the privilege of having when I was their age.
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Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, …

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It first …

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the …
Scalzi's book starts from a well explored premise: the abundance of life in the universe makes its finite resources a scarce commodity, and therefore the space-faring species are engaged in battles to share them. The metaphor to the way humans must learn to share Earth's finite resources is obvious but not gratuitous. The interesting take is on what makes us human: what is the relationship between our consciousness, our experience, and our body? Well written and engaging, a bit too humorous at times, but nevertheless a very good read for lovers of SF.
Scalzi's book starts from a well explored premise: the abundance of life in the universe makes its finite resources a scarce commodity, and therefore the space-faring species are engaged in battles to share them. The metaphor to the way humans must learn to share Earth's finite resources is obvious but not gratuitous. The interesting take is on what makes us human: what is the relationship between our consciousness, our experience, and our body? Well written and engaging, a bit too humorous at times, but nevertheless a very good read for lovers of SF.
I think this is by far the best piece of SF on the time travel subject that I have ever read. The philosophical questions that it addresses, not merely about the paradoxes of time travel, but more so about the relationship between need, risk and progress, are worth the read by themselves. The excellent writing, still incredibly fresh after more than 70 years, make it a masterpiece, almost suspended in a timeless world.
Uno dei più bei libri di fantascienza, specie sul soggetto "viaggio nel tempo", che abbia mai letto. Non per niente Asimov è l'indiscusso maestro del genere. È quasi surreale pensare che ha più di 70 anni. Forse Asimov aveva accesso a qualche macchina del tempo per scrivere così bene del "futuro"...
Uno dei più bei libri di fantascienza, specie sul soggetto "viaggio nel tempo", che abbia mai letto. Non per niente Asimov è l'indiscusso maestro del genere. È quasi surreale pensare che ha più di 70 anni. Forse Asimov aveva accesso a qualche macchina del tempo per scrivere così bene del "futuro"...
La prima opera di Nicoletta Verna mostra tutta la sua capacità di mettere a nudo la coscienza umana nelle relazioni con gli altri, che diventerà ancora più sviluppata nel suo celebre "I giorni di Vetro". Qui il tema è più intimo, familiare: può esserci felicità da adulti quando la felicità ci è strappata da piccoli? Duro, crudo, richiede un po' di forza per essere affrontato.
La prima opera di Nicoletta Verna mostra tutta la sua capacità di mettere a nudo la coscienza umana nelle relazioni con gli altri, che diventerà ancora più sviluppata nel suo celebre "I giorni di Vetro". Qui il tema è più intimo, familiare: può esserci felicità da adulti quando la felicità ci è strappata da piccoli? Duro, crudo, richiede un po' di forza per essere affrontato.

La cittadinanza non è più una conquista universale, ma uno strumento di esclusione. Lea Ypi smaschera le narrazioni identitarie e …
The Gate to Women's Country might seem a simple tale at first: after a man-made apocalypse has ended society as we know it, the world has transitioned into two partitioned groups. The women seem to be ruling by enclosing themselves with few men in walled cities, while the men are happy to patrol the outside and defend the city from all outsiders, glad to be playing along as "warriors". But the novel hides in plain sight so many other layers, including a vivid depiction of the nature of the sexes and their interaction, the eternal quest of humanity to make themselves better and, ultimately, what it really means to be a man, or a woman. Highly recommended on so many levels.
The Gate to Women's Country might seem a simple tale at first: after a man-made apocalypse has ended society as we know it, the world has transitioned into two partitioned groups. The women seem to be ruling by enclosing themselves with few men in walled cities, while the men are happy to patrol the outside and defend the city from all outsiders, glad to be playing along as "warriors". But the novel hides in plain sight so many other layers, including a vivid depiction of the nature of the sexes and their interaction, the eternal quest of humanity to make themselves better and, ultimately, what it really means to be a man, or a woman. Highly recommended on so many levels.
A bit history, a bit journalistic inquiry, a bit novel, this is a beautifully written fresco about Tehran and its people. At times, one might hear the echoes of the life of the writer herself, but that is never the main theme. Highly recommended if you want to understand more about what really Iran is about these days, and how it got there.

Una missione non ufficiale a migliaia di chilometri da Aosta, tre amici si rincorrono e rincorrono un traditore. Un passaggio …
Per chi ha letto già i primi tre capitoli della saga e li ha apprezzati, non c'è molto da aggiungere: qualità narrativa alta, ritmi molto elevati, tema cardine la disugaglianza che sta lacerando la nostra società. Un bellissimo thriller estivo.
Per chi ha letto già i primi tre capitoli della saga e li ha apprezzati, non c'è molto da aggiungere: qualità narrativa alta, ritmi molto elevati, tema cardine la disugaglianza che sta lacerando la nostra società. Un bellissimo thriller estivo.