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Brandon Q. Morris en Internet y en las redes sociales Book

Brandon Q. Morris en Internet y en las redes sociales

Cuando publiqué mi primer libro hace años, el plan era claro: también habría un sitio web para el libro, además de tal vez un boletín informativo, y probablemente también debía haber una página de Facebook. Pues bien, el mundo ha cambiado. Prefiero estar donde están mis lectores, y eso significa que ahora también pueden encontrarme en muchas otras plataformas. Pero, al fin y al cabo, sería aburrido leer y ver lo mismo en todas partes. Así que ha llegado el momento de hacer un pequeño repaso: ¿Dónde puedes encontrar qué de Brandon Q. Morris y con qué frecuencia? Website:…
What is hard science fiction, anyway? Astrophysics

What is hard science fiction, anyway?

Brandon Q. Morris writes hard science fiction. But what does that actually mean? I like to explain it this way: What happens in my books could happen in reality. There are no laws of physics that would prevent it. You could also call it "realistic" science fiction, although the fiction remains, of course. In the end, it is a story that I tell. Apart from the degree of hardness (more on that below), hard science fiction also tends to depict the conflict between the hero and the environment (in the form of the universe and its manifold phenomena) instead of…
The Milky Way meets a sausage Book

The Milky Way meets a sausage

Eight to ten billion years ago, thus, in its youth, our Milky Way apparently had a fateful encounter: it crossed paths with another, significantly smaller galaxy. The researchers who discovered this gave the smaller galaxy the name “Sausage Galaxy,” but this is perhaps a little unfair, because in reality it had a similar elliptical shape as the Milky Way. The name “Sausage” came from the way the collision was proven. To do this, astronomers examined the distribution of velocities of the stars in the Milky Way. This showed that a sausage-shaped group of stars with similar patterns of motion…