Tag: Valentin Ivanov
‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
GLAAD Media Awards Honors Hacks, Eternals, and More in 2022 Ceremony
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
“Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow”’ – Review by Valentin Ivanov
A handbook for science fiction readers and writers: a review of "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow", by Yuval Noah HarariThe future is...
Valentin Ivanov’s Review of “Seveneves” by Neal Stephenson
Every End is a Beginning: "Seveneves",
a novel by Neal Stephenson - A review by Valentin IvanovThe inquisitive spirit of the old golden-age science fiction...
“Burning Paradise” by Robert Charles Wilson – A review by Valentin D. Ivanov (Bulgaria)
Tor, 2013A dysfunctional family versus a big dumb object. This same story is retold in a few of the R. C. Wilson's novels, most...
“Zendegi” by Greg Egan reviewed by Valentin Ivanov
I came across Greg Egan many years ago, reading a short story titled "Wang's Carpets", where he described aliens living in Fourier space, in...
The gender bias in the contemporary short-form speculative fiction
A heated discussion on the mailing list of contributors to the Strange Horizons prompted me to put some numbers on the gender ratio in...
Between a Hummer and a Rock: The Bulgarian Science Fiction between the East and the West
I. Ivan Vazov - near-future SF from a century agoIvan Vazov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vazov) is the father of the modern Bulgarian literature, no less. He...