Introduction Callisto, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, has always fascinated me. As a child, I read a comic published in weekly episodes in the Italian magazine Corriere dei Piccoli (translation: “The Children’s Mail”). The story was about Gianni Bibò, a bizarre, overweight, middle-aged, bespectacled astronaut who, together with his rinky-dinkContinue Reading
The theory of the missing astronauts: men and women allegedly launched into space under secret missions, never listed on rosters, and never seen again.Continue Reading
Introduction For decades, whispers of secret government programs have fueled speculation about contact with extraterrestrials. Project Aquarius is one of these alleged operations’ most tantalizing—and shadowy—. Born from post-Roswell panic and buried under layers of top-secret classification, Project Aquarius allegedly documented contact with Alien Biological Entities (EBEs)—non-human lifeforms recovered orContinue Reading
CHAPTER 1: AWAKENINGS The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis the XIV, to pick up a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. (Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, PocketContinue Reading
The Dark Forest Theory is a solution to the Fermi Paradox which highlights the contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing and the lack of contact with such civilizations. The Dark Forest Theory is a compelling hypothesis that offers a unique perspective on why we haven’t encountered extraterrestrial civilizations.Continue Reading
Rewriting the Gods of Ilium Dan Simmons’s ‘Ilium ‘is a sprawling, genre-blending epic that reimagines Homer’s Iliad through a futuristic, science-fictional lens. Set across multiple timelines and locations—including a terraformed Mars and a post-human Earth—Ilium weaves three major narrative threads together. The first thread follows Thomas Hockenberry, a 20th-century HomericContinue Reading
When you hear “Men in Black,” your mind probably jumps to Hollywood’s cool agents in black suits, neuralyzers in hand, keeping Earth safe from rogue aliens. But the real-world phenomenon is far stranger—and far more unsettling. Continue Reading
