Nothing is written. The future is ours to shape. When you take the cities, spare the scientists and engineers. Whatever they may have done in the past, you need them for the future. Let’s make it a better one. (The Sky Road) Back...
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Well, there you are
Howie Firth reviews Auntie Robbo, by Ann Scott-Moncrieff Everyone should have an Auntie Robbo. Outwardly she looks “the very picture of what an old lady should be”, but her great-grand-nephew Hector knows she is something more...
Quantum theory: the glory and the shame
I’m one of those people who go into bookshops and buys books that I know I would love to read but...
Scouring the globe’s empty spaces
Barrow’s Boys by Fergus Fleming I was given this book as a Christmas present by a friend who knows...
Europe to the Stars
Europe to the Stars is an excellent book. It has lots of facts and illustrations and pictures with...
The ice-grey river and the fire in the night
Have you sometimes wondered what it would have been like to live in Norse Orkney, a thousand years...
The Falling Sky: an extract from a new novel
There are two ways of measuring time at a telescope; two separate displays on the console tell...
How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
This is a greeeat book. It rrrreally is. I just have to put this bone down and curl up on this...