I Listened To This Song A Lot While Reading 3 Body Problem And The Dark Forest.
I listened to this song a lot while reading 3 Body Problem and The Dark Forest.
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Read Selections from Cixin Liu’s Death’s End on Tor.com.
Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest is a mind-bending blend of splashy SF and serious science. A review on The Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.
Scientists are working on those replicators.
The protein is created from water, electricity and carbon dioxide and the Finnish researcher believes “the price can be pushed to 1 euro per kg”. Creating food this way doesn’t require the right humidity and soil and doesn’t take up the vast acreage otherwise required for growing soy beans for example.
Potentially all that is required is solar power - making it possible to feed people in deserts. Commercial use is hopefully 10 years away.
Famine solved! No more starving! Our Star Trek future is here!
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“A futuristic tale of urban life in Beijing has won a Chinese novelist a top international prize for science fiction, beating out heavyweight Stephen King for the honour.
Hao Jingfang, 32, won the Hugo Award for best novelette with Folding Beijing, a year after another Chinese writer, Liu Cixin, won the best novel prize for The Three-Body Problem, Xinhua reported on the weekend.
Receiving her award in Kansas City, Missouri, Hao said she was not surprised she had won but had also been prepared to lose.
“In Folding Beijing, I have raised a possibility for the future and how we face the challenges of automated production, technological advances, unemployment and economic stagnation,” she said.
Hao said her book offered a solution to those challenges, but she hoped the situations she described would not become reality.
Hao is from Tianjin, and graduated with a physics degree from Tsinghua University in 2006.
The Hugo Awards, established in 1953, are regarded as the highest honour in science fiction and fantasy. They are named after Hugo Gernsback who was the founder of the American science fiction magazineAmazing Stories.”
Read the full piece here
Congratulations Hao Jingfang!
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by: Sondre Eriksen
Sometimes I think about those high res Jupiter pics and then think about Van Gogh and get emotional because it’s like this one, lonely man that didn’t experience an ounce of fame or recognition in his life time had the image of the universe in his head and he didn’t know it.
