The Science Of Dune edited by Kevin R. Grazier (book review).
A common problem with Science Fiction is that it doesn’t hold up well to scientific scrutiny. Things that make sense
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Faraday, Maxwell And The Electromagnetic Field by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon (book review)
The story of Michael Faraday is really a literal rags to riches story as he worked his way into the
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Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual by David Baker (book review)
Being in my early teens in 1970 and the school swot on the space program, I was aware of the
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And Then You’re Dead: A Scientific Exploration Of The World’s Most Interesting Ways To Die by Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty (book review).
Want a nice cheery book for this time of year? I doubt if the thrill-seekers or even the unfortunate who
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The Planets: Photographs From The Archives Of NASA by Nirmala Nataraj (book review).
There is one major observation you get when you look at the pictures in Nirmala Nataraj’s book ‘The Planets: Photographs
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Blockbuster Science: The Real Science In Science Fiction by David Siegel Bernstein (book review).
I doubt if anyone today has read all the SF stories that are currently out there. We might have specialisation
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Killer robot subs with nukes get real.
Lockheed Martin is to develop the U.S. Navy’s new programme of robot submarine, with Orca, the U.S. Navy’s Extra Large
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Stretching Things: an extended article by: GF Willmetts.
One of the most drastic types of super-humans are the pliable ones. They are also in small number with the
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The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide To The Elements by Tom Jackson (book review).
There are some books that I wish had when I was young, mostly because we never had such visual representations
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What We See In The Stars by Kelsey Oseid (book review)
I’m not entirely sure who the target audience is for illustrator/writer Kelsey Oseid’s book, ‘What We See In The Stars’.
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