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Venusian Futures

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 06:00:00 GMT

Looking at modern era insights into Venus in science and science fiction

Adventures in Time and Space... and Science

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 06:00:00 GMT

Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who

High Frontiers

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 05:00:00 GMT

Human settlement of space has been a given since the earliest science fiction stories were written. The High Frontier was an influential popular science book published in 1976 by an American physicist Gerard K O’Neill. The High Frontier had an enormous impact, and cylindrical space habitats have since acquired the name O’Neill Cylinders, both in fact and in fiction.

Technocracy and Scientism in SF

Sun, 08 Aug 2021 05:00:00 GMT

Looking at science fiction which considers rule by science in a variety of forms.

Year of the Burn Up

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 05:00:00 GMT

The 1970s children's television SF drama "Timeslip" posed questions of scientific ethics which are still relevant to the current day.