Science Fiction & Fantasy
Alfred
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  • Paris, France
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I am a (recently) retired theoretical physicist, still active as "emeritus" in Université Paris-Sud from which I just retired. I am rather an SF fan, and particularly a great fan of Lois McMaster Bujold. Indeed, I participated in the reedition of the french translation of the first two-thirds of the Vorkosigan Saga in omnibus form, and the first translation of the books of the last third.

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Huge trees in an "air belt" in space
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A fantasy novel under London
Dec 7 '21
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A story both SF and Fantasy where a character in a spacesuit has a phantom arm
Dec 18 '19
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Multi-trunked elephants invade Earth
Jan 17
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70s or older story about a sentient forest who discovers the A-bomb
Oct 16 '19
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A short story about a “fractal” world
Dec 12 '21
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A (probably) short fiction where a Babylonian potter’s wheel turned out to be the earliest cylinder phonograph
Dec 9 '21
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A short story about a shipwreck in space
Dec 6 '21
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A man sent to a parallel Earth to save someone important
Apr 28 '19
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Novel where a serial killer lives (almost) forever by swapping bodies
Nov 4 '19
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Am I allowed to answer my question and 2 days later accept it if I received some (minimal) help from someone else?
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What to do when a question gets two identical answers that are timed to the very same minute?
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How many types of inertia are there?
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Why can we calculate moment of inertia, but not inertia?
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Why do these two ways of understanding constant acceleration give different results?
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What makes the "Tweety Bird saw a Romulan" joke funny in the original version?
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Why the balloon does not pop when there are a lot of needles?

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