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Saturday, 11 July 2015

I Love Laika

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Let's hear it for Laika, the first animal in space, chosen from a pack of candidates because she was compliant and photogenic. A few...
Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Book Review: "Alan Turing: The Enigma"

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This book has been on my radar for years now. I found it after one of those tipping points where you finally hit the nth reference to a pers...
Saturday, 27 December 2014

Top Ten Reads of 2014

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Here are the ten best reads I experienced in 2014. They are in no particular order, nor were they all published in 2014 (but most were). The...
Saturday, 6 December 2014

Book Review: 'The City on the Edge of Forever' by Harlan Ellison

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How do you create a new cut of a near 50 year old episode of Star Trek? In comic form of course. I do not know the reason why the origi...
Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Book Review: "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin

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Originally published in it's native Chinese in 2008, The Three-Body Problem has now been translated for English speakers to read and enj...
Friday, 7 November 2014

Book Review: 'Doctor Who: Lights Out' by Holly Black

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The 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who was widely celebrated last year and the Beeb teamed up with Penguin to release 11 short stories celebrati...
Monday, 27 October 2014

Book Review: 'Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything' by Theodore Gray

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Moving on from his wonderful books on DIY chemistry experiments ( Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home - But Probably...