Arthur C Clarke Award winning author is what the book cover of America City proclaims … before telling you who the author is (Chris Beckett) … and then the title of the book. That order is significant, because Mr Beckett certainly didn’t win the award for this piece of fiction. That perhaps sounds a bit …
With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing looming, there’s an increasing number of posts appearing about this most significant of humanity’s achievements. The pictures taken during the Apollo missions are truly iconic. To celebrate the Apollo 11 anniversary, Hasselblad have reissued their original press release (PDF doc) alongside a Hassleblad in Space …
Continuing on the recent theme of books about the cosmos/astronomy/physics, I read Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli while having a long soak in the bath – for reasons that I’m about to explain, the bath didn’t take as long as you may think, and I certainly did not look prune-like by the …
‘Ere time began, from flaming Chaos hurled Rose the bright spheres, which form the circling world Erasmus Darwin From the Temple of Nature Canto 1 Production of Life by Erasmus Darwin