At times you wonder what the scriptwriters smoked or whether they ever bothered attending science classes. I find it difficult to keep it in place (the suspension) even with the movie Interstellar. MASSIMO MARINO: True, unfortunately the suspension of disbelief goes bananas. KRISTEN TSETSI: As a physicist, is it ever difficult for you to read science fiction by writers who don’t have a science background? I imagine it could sometimes be like a person in the military watching a movie about war and “Nope, wrong”-ing the uniforms and patches, or rolling their eyes at the ever-present helicopters flying over an Army post. He is also co-founder of Squares on Blue, a big data analytics service company, and of BookGarage, a publishing services brokerage firm. He contributed to the experiments at CERN and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, then accepted leading positions at Apple, Inc. He’s a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) and a scientist envisioning science fiction. In this 5 On interview, author Massimo Marino discusses what it’s like to read science fiction as a scientist, his experience with the Booktrope publishing collective, the mission of BookGarage, and more.īooktrope Publishing LCC publishes Massimo Marino‘s works.
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