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Archive for September, 2007
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On Dawn
Posted on September 29, 2007 | 2 CommentsDawn launching…photograph reproduced by kind permission of NASA. It’s getting even more cluttered up in space…before long, they’ll need bus lanes. The latest NASA mission features the unmanned spaceship Dawn which... -
On Winning an Award (Sort of)
Posted on September 28, 2007 | 2 CommentsRather to my surprise, I’ve won (or part won, or shared in the winning of) an award for my radio drama Gaza. It’s the Clarion Award, which was given for... -
On the Electric Church
Posted on September 28, 2007 | 6 CommentsI’ve just finished reading The Electric Church by Jeff Somers. I’d recommend it strongly. It’s a blisteringly exciting, brilliantly conceived cyber-noir-thriller-actionmovie-SF novel. Somers is a clever high-octane writer, and has... -
More Action Women
Posted on September 27, 2007 | No CommentsI wrote a little while ago about why women are still getting short-changed in action movies…and now to competely confute and contradict me, along come two movies with female action... -
On Peggy Whitson
Posted on September 19, 2007 | No CommentsIt continues to be a busy time up in space…after some difficulties, the plucky robot explorer Opportunity is now roaming in Victoria Crater, Mars. A fly-past of Iapetus has yielded... -
On Being Blasted!
Posted on September 17, 2007 | No CommentsI spent Sunday on the South Bank, in the midst of the Thames Festival. Music, food, and a Night Carnival featuring the fabulous London School of Samba. And at lunchtime,... -
On Space, the Next Frontier
Posted on September 17, 2007 | No CommentsA friend of mine emailed me last week to say that he’d been using the Astronomy Picture of the Day link on my site…and loved what he saw there. This... -
On Steve Ditko
Posted on September 15, 2007 | No CommentsTake a look at this. It’s a love sonnet written in prose by Jonathan Ross about one of his childhood heroes, Steve Ditko. I loved Marvel comics too, I loved... -
On Blast!
Posted on September 8, 2007 | No CommentsToday was the first day of the BBC’s Blast! festival at the National Theatre (in Theatre Square, just outside the main building.) This offers nine days of events for young... -
On Wasting Time, Profitably
Posted on September 7, 2007 | 2 CommentsYesterday I played approximately 43 games of Spider Solitaire. I hate the 4 pack version, because I never win, so I play the 2 pack version. I came out maybe... -
On the Joy Of Space
Posted on September 5, 2007 | 1 CommentI’ve just been reading Stephen Baxter’s Deep Future, a book of essays about the future and what it may bring. It’s great stuff, and it has some excellent sections on... -
On Becoming Immortal
Posted on September 3, 2007 | 3 CommentsIsn’t it annoying, in a world of 24 hours news and ever more intrusive media stories, how the really important stories get neglected and ignored? This thought occurred to me recently ...