In mood for some hardcore space opera?
Happy new year everyone! I have some good news to share, especially with Czech lovers of modern space opera, hard SF and bio/cyberpunk. I’ve been holding ...
Author: Julie Nováková
‘Tis the Season…
So. It’s this time of year again. Cultists sing about elder gods stirring in their sleep, something horrible is creeping down the chimney to eat your soul...
Source of Earth’s water: A little idea about D/H ratios
You couldn’t have missed the headlines: Due to Rosetta’s measurements of the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s wa...
Book launch at Fenixcon
My newest novel, “Bez naděje”, is having a book launch ceremony at Fenixcon this Saturday afternoon. More info and a snippet from the novel (in Czec...
A new novel out in the stores!
I’ve got good news for my Czech readers: My new novel, set in the “Agent John Francis Kovář” adventure SF series, was published today. It̵...
An oasis of European short speculative fiction?
Editor Martin Šust has recently mentioned an interesting fact: As far as we know, the Czech Republic is the only European country with two professional monthly ...
Science-fictional & real science
If we have seen further, it’s largely by standing on layers of previous errors. I had a lecture last week about cognitive biases, their possible adaptiven...
Review of Upgraded at Fantasy Scroll
I’ve reviewed Neil Clarke’s cyborg anthology UPGRADED for Fantasy Scroll Magazine; the review can be found here in the new issue of the magazine. Cz...
Interview & public reading at APPlaus radio
I hope my English-speaking readers forgive me that this brief post is aimed primarily at Czech audience: I’m having an interview and book reading on Septe...
Worldcon, Fringe & more
It had been a busy summer. I’ve attended the European Conference on Behavioral Biology (there would be a report coming up in the bulletin of the Czech &am...
