Published 1957 I read this book in my teens. Since then I hadn’t read it. The only things I remembered was that there was a Cloud hurtling toward the Sun, there were Americans and British involved, and that there was a lot of formulas, diagrams, and lengthy expository footnotes on several pages… A...
You can put this one next to 2001. It isn't as cosmically imaginative as Clarke's book, but it has a similar vibe. One hundred years in the future, a star with its own planetary system passes near Earth. Four of its five planets are gas giants, but the fifth, dubbed Achilles, is Earth-sized and evid...
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Having read and enjoyed the first volume of Mike Ashley' Starting Course follows with the excellent story of Eddie the android, first of the factory line he's embedded into an ordinary family in order to finesse his social skills before he is sent off-world as part of the workforce of humanity's exp...
Let's not forget, in the flush of enthusiasm for Manny's review of a book written by Hoyle, that it was written by two people, one of whom, though he may have started out an aspiring nobody paying due attention to Hoyle and receiving the possibly dubious benefits, he became along the way a scientist...
I have always been vehemently opposed to the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools. It seemed to me that the proposal was without value, since ID made no predictions and was the work of scientific illiterates who refused even to admit that their idea amounted to alien intelligences tampering wit...
Frontiers of Astronomy, first published in 1955, is one of the greatest popular science books ever written; according to Origins, it inspired a whole generation of future astronomers and astrophysicists. It is still well worth reading today, and I have rarely seen anything which so clearly shows you...
Our friend A at CERN has told us about the various distinguished visitors they receive, many of them household names in the scientific community. But, she said, you surprisingly often discover that they have gone weird in their old age. People who absolutely merited the Nobel Prize they received thi...
Another Fred Hoyle SF disaster novel, but, alas, not a patch on The Black Cloud. The core of the Galaxy turns into a quasar. Given the orientation of the Earth, Hoyle has calculated that Scotland will just manage to avoid the deadly radiation, but England will be hit. His hero, a square-jawed Scotti...
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