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A generous and convivial friend, a wonderful author whose novels are vivid and deeply felt evocations of the myths and quotidian reality of the ancient world, and all-round good bloke. Gone too soon and greatly missed.
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Another Science Fiction: An Intersection of Art and Technology in the Early Space Race On industrial trade magazine covers and ads from the days when science was the Way Forward, and the law of unintended consequences had yet to be invented. (via Big Dumb Object )
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The HiRise camera package on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continues to send back stunningly beautiful images of complex and unexpected textures on the Martian surface. The image above, looking like nothing so much as a finely sculptured high-end chocolate desert, is of dunes inside a crater ...
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The Spirit
First Black Holes May Have Incubated in Giant, Starlike Cocoons 'The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown away, says a new study led ...
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I find myself becoming mildly obsessed with this Pink Floyd song. It's extremely well known - probably their best-known song in fact, up there in best plank-spanking polls and so on - but flew way under my radar when it was first released in 1970; although the hippy living in the flat ...
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'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils 'Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...
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A few years ago, Jonathan Lethem published an
essay in The Village Voice, ‘Close Encounters: The Squandered...
Promise of Science Fiction’, in which he decried the close-mindedness of the genre and sketched an alternate history in which Thomas Pynchon’s ...
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Secret Histories
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There's a lot to admire in director John
Hillcoat's film version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalypse novel The...
Road . Two unnamed and unashamedly emblematic figures, father and son, trudge southwards through ruined cities and ashy landscapes where ...
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The Road
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LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon 'The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. 'Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. 'NASA today opened a new ...
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The Spirit
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Arguably the most widely read science fiction of
the 1980s, though rarely recognized as such, were the...
military techno-thrillers that topped the bestseller lists in that decade—novels like those written by Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts, Dale Brown, ...
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Science Fiction that Isn't Science Fiction (4)
Last night I dreamed I was in a laboratory again. We all have a particular anxiety dream that we return to over and again. Mine is about being unable to get together the various things required to maintain the clone I looked after, on and off, for twenty years. It's a natural clone of a simple ...
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Now the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter has settled into its mapping orbit just 50 kilometres above the Moon's surface, it has been returning some spectacular images of the Apollo landing sites. Above is a close-up of an image of the the Apollo 11 site , just released by NASA. It's about 150 ...
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Hey, it's the cover for the US edition of Gardens of the Sun , scheduled for publication in March 2010. Kudos to artist Sparth and hero editor Lou Anders.
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In 2002, I was one of the guests of honour at a science-fiction convention in Leipzig. I had a fine old time. My hosts took me and the other guests to the top of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal War Memorial, the largest war memorial in Europe, and held a celebratory dinner in Auerbach’s Keller, the ...
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Data from Kaguya's prime mission to the Moon has been released 'Yesterday, the Japanese space agency announced the public release of the data from the primary mission of the Kaguya (a.k.a. SELENE) lunar orbiter. The release covers the period from December 21, 2007 to October 31, 2008, and ...
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A stunning portfolio of images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 's Hi-Rise camera, selected by the Boston Globe's Big Picture.
