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Whilst driving to and from work, two news stories about space have caught my attention recently. The first has been NASA’s continuing preparations to “go back to the moon,” as they called it, and the second has been the story of the space station evacuation due to the serious illness of one of the astronauts.…
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Words by J. Patrick Armstrong It’s quite rare for a book to actually frighten me, to show me a familiar world and rip it apart with such skill, dexterity and reach that I am left with the awful conclusion that the apocalyptic horrors foretold in its pages will, almost certainly, come to pass. But that’s…
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Gabriel’s Moon by Willliam Boyd and James Ellroy’s The Enchanters take place at almost the same point in his history, as America and Russia race for space and the world lurches to the brink of nuclear war. Yet to read them back-to-back, you might think they were from different planets with different languages. And in…
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