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Coalescent
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No comments on CoalescentStephen Baxter’s new novel, Coalescent: , sounds quite promising – in contrast to his last half dozen or so books, which have uniformly disappointed. It’s the first of three novels, each telling different stories but linked by a far future viewpoint: “Earth subsumed by the evolutionary step of the hive culture in man; a far…
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Busy busy
Not much has been happening in my life that has been worth posting about lately. I’ve been keeping myself busy doing lots of writing and website design, and I’ve been using my downtime to mull over a couple of future projects. The article is coming along nicely; I have all the material I need to…
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Steam Trek
Steam Trek – what a find! Some enterprising individuals have masterfully melded two classic SF genres, Star Trek and Steampunk. The result is a wonderful universe with Her Majesty’s Aether Ships exploring the solar system and protecting the United Kingdom of Planets. Long live Queen Victoria, and may her glorious reign continue as it has…
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What Galileo Saw
What Galileo Saw – the New Yorker has a compelling account of the legacy of NASA’s Galileo deep space probe. The article describes the almost fatal problem the probe encountered in transit and the heroic effort of NASA scientists to try and salvage the mission, as well as the unparalleled discoveries it made at Jupiter.
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The Death of Cyber
I’m becoming increasingly irritated by the lack of quality of writing in newspapers these days, and specifically, newspaper supplements. I have no problem with the main reporting, but the ‘lifestyle’ sections are just awful. Maybe they’ve always been this dull and boring, or maybe my standards have been risen by culling the best of the…
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GM Spin
I posted a comment in this MetaFilter thread about GM crops, on how research in the area is often misrepresented by the anti-GM lobby. Case in point: it was claimed that the Bt toxin pesticide might actually benefit some pests, meaning that transgenic Bt plants could be utterly counterproductive. In reality, the research data has…
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Time Commanders review
Imagine playing an RTS game like Total War (in fact, just like Total War) with three of your friends, on a big screen and a couple of military history advisors. That’s what BBC2’s new show Time Commanders is, essentially. There are a few twists, of course. None of the four players actually got to touch…
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Syberia 2 gets colder
Syberia II pushed back to 2004 – some disappointing news from Microids. Apparently they’re doing it so they can make a simultaneous release on PC, PS2 and XBox – but do console gamers really play adventure games? I suppose I shouldn’t be too bothered, since I have an unplayed copy of The Longest Journey still…
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Hit the Big Time
My old Experimental Psychology supervisor at Cambridge, Prof. Simon Baron Cohen, has hit the big time with his new book on autism, and his work is featured on the cover of the current Newsweek in an article called Girls, Boys and Autism. I should probably get around to buying his book some time (The Essential…
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Article
Well, it took me about a month longer than I expected to finish the first draft on the game article I’m writing. I suppose I could’ve done it a bit quicker but I’ve had to conduct several interviews which took some time; in fact, I’m still waiting for someone to get back to me before…
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