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Space, said Douglas Adams, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is… But there’s a small...

The Mr Potatoheads of Dr Who are back on our screens tomorrow night . The toad-faced Sontarans whose heads snugly fit their helmets of cours...

I’d meant to read Persepolis for ages, but the new film version and not being able to think what else to get the Dr for an anniversary pre...

The shiny http://www.tsfs.fi/spin/arkisto.php?v=2007&nro=4">new issue of Finnish sci-fi magazine Spin includes a translation of...

The Dr's book is due out next month and the media circus has already begun. She's interviewed in this week's Time Out - the se...

So. Doctor Who then. Is Rose Tyler eating all the bees?

The BBC's Doctor Who website has posted a review of The Pirate Loop by the reading group from Bishop of Llandaff school in Cardiff - th...

Hooray! I have as of this morning my copies of Defining Patterns , which have been sat in the Post Office awaiting my collection. It’s a th...

My friend Suetekh once told me that she collects definitions of science fiction. Ones where Star Wars isn’t allowed, or that start with Fra...

So, says Scott , what am I up to? And I realise I haven’t posted one of those sorts of posts in ages. So here goes… I’m almost at the end o...

What the internet can tell us about the names of Dr Who’s friends. Rose Well, duh, it’s after the pretty flower. But it might also come fro...

For reasons of research on something I cannot yet speak of, I have been looking into physics. Specifically, I have been learning about orbit...

I’m a bit of a sucker for the tunnels of London. There’s the space-age aluminium and toughened glass all through the Jubilee line extension ...

The editor occassionaly known as Cindy Knees has posted details of his forthcoming anthology, In The Footsteps of Gilgamesh . Due out in Apr...

Drat and double drat. Having cut shapes in the temple of dance Friday night for the benefit of some very special ladies, I now discover my t...

Regular viewers of the Sci-Fi Channel may have seen my ugly mug recently, maconieing on “The Flash Gordon Story” for Free@Last TV . Did the ...

“How many London tour guides, one wonders, will be speaking Mandarin in 2012?” Jonathan Clements, Beijing – The Biography of a City , pp. 14...

Appearing round London from today and in a special exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery are Franklyn Rodgers’ splendid portraits of ...

My post two years ago on The Brooklyn Follies suggests Paul Auster’s work is all aimiable stuff with little incident but musing and convers...

There is a theory I am quite drawn to that humans have factory settings. The idea is that Homo sapiens developed and evolved to fit particul...