02 April 2025
Bold ideas and big questions in our Spring 2025 issue
... sparking debate thanks to its bold cover image: a pregnant astronaut drifting in microgravity. Far from a work of science fiction, the cover is a symbolic invitation to engage with one of the issue’s central topics – the scientific and ethical...
04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
... on space and astronomy will probably not get much out of this one. The text, interspersed as it is with science fiction references and other popular story-telling devices, is well-written and should be accessible to those already interested...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... were fuzzy blobs, there was no proof of exoplanets and the idea of landing a spacecraft on an asteroid was pure science fiction! According to its publicity, this book provides “a tour of the ‘greatest hits’ of cosmological discoveries - the ideas...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
...an image of an Atlas launch. In between are early sketches of the Moon made through telescopes, film stills and science-fictional guesses at its surface characteristics, blurred TV images from 1969 and equally blurred artistic renderings. Readers may...
01 October 2019
Life on Mars: what to know before we go
... existing life on Mars. After the typical sections on science fiction and Schiaparelli’s ‘canals’, which seem de rigeur for ...any Mars book, the author gets down to the science of “Chlorophyll, Lichens and Algae”, Mars meteorites and methane....
16 April 2020
China in Space
...Although this sounds a bit like the premise for a science fiction drama, much of the latter will feature unmanned scientific ... leading innovator by 2030…and the world-leading power in science and technology by 2049”, the centenary of the founding of...
