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Out today, The Story of the Solar System - A Visual Journey , is a sumptuous big book of space infographics written by Dr Maggie Aderin-Poco...

I couldn't resist this memoir of the first moon landing by the man who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to...

This afternoon, I had a long chat with Nathan Price on his Countdown to the Moon project , discussing Artemis, the TV coverage of Apollo and...

The third book in the Lady Astronaut series (after  The Calculating Stars  and  The Fated Sky ) is another triumph, and having struggled to ...

The thrilling new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine features two things by me. First, in "Moonbase 3" Rhys Williams and ...

Big Finish have put up Tom Newsom's amazing cover art for Doctor Who - Wicked Sisters , the trilogy of audio stories I've written th...

I’m struggling a bit with prose for grown-ups, so over the last month worked my way through The Adventures of Tintin , an eight-volume box-s...

After the smart, brilliant, thrilling The Calculating Stars , this second novel in the Lady Astronaut series is just as good - thrilling,...

Out in November, Wicked Sisters is a trilogy of Doctor Who stories in which the Fifth Doctor and Leela must destroy two powerful beings ...

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

Driving up to Blackpool to collect the wife and children this week, I listened to the audiobook of Doctor Who: The Invasion , a book I lo...

This Saturday morning, Radio 4 Extra are repeating Floating in Space - a compendium of space-related programming presented by Samira Ahm...

My essay "Man on the Moon", about the psychology involved in landing the first people on the lunar surface 50 years ago this mo...

The Moon - A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour is a new book published by Royal Observatory Greenwich to accompany the Moon exhibiti...

I've an essay in  The Moon - A celebration of our celestial neighbour , a new book   edited by Melanie Vandenbrouck .  In July it wi...

BBC Books (who, I should declare, publish stuff by me) sent me this fun new volume from TV's Dr Maggie, which she herself describes as,...

This new graphic novel about the Apollo 11 Moon landing is illustrated by Mike Collins who a) shares his name with the Command Module pi...