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This handsome little hardback is an arresting read. The strange, tactile quality of Aliya Whiteley's fiction has long entranced me (see ...

This smart, thrilling, brilliant new novel is about the women who are part of the astronaut programme in an alternate 1950s. History dive...

Earlier this week, the Dr pointed me in the direction of Professor Joe Cain's splendid talk on the dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palac...

I've just finished rereading Dune , having first got through it in my teens. In my head, the book is rather overshadowed by the 1984 fi...

Episode 181: The Ice Warriors , episode two First broadcast: 5.25 pm, Saturday 18 November, 1967 << back to 1966 Varga the Ice ...

First shown in 1978, James Burke's amazing 10-part history of science, Connections – an Alternative View of Change , is up on YouTube ...

Adam Grose's blog announces the not untimely publication of Flood , an anthology of one-page comic strips to raise money for the British...

Adam Grose has announced my inclusion in his forthcoming FLOOD comic , which features one-page strips and drabbles to raise money for flood ...

The last few days I have been a Simon Head-in-Air. If I remember rightly, this means I’m due to fall into a canal and drown. And the reason ...

The deluge continues, and there are mad pictures of Reading , with the cinema I used to go to and shops where I'd buy milk now under fe...

Some years ago, I wrote my (not very good) MA dissertation about science-fiction being more fiction than science. Yes, you might get a wheez...

Have been comparing the post-Christmas tummy with m’learned colleagues, as well as sharing methods for working it all off. One chum restrict...