60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1950

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1950

Our 1950 pick is L. Sprague de Camp and P. Schuyler Miller's Genus Homo, a pulp adventure that takes place a million years in the future after after the genus Homo has destroyed itself, leaving the…
A bit of an introduction

A bit of an introduction

Hi, my name is Georgie and I’m a dog with a blog.As we approach the summer solstice of 2010 I thought I should start a blog as a countdown to the end of the world.  Ok, the world is not really…
Manifesto For The Simple Scribe - Rules Of Prose

Manifesto For The Simple Scribe - Rules Of Prose

Little nuggets of (k)nowledge can often be the most simple and common sense ideas, but it takes someone else to put them into a coherent sentence. Tim Radford is a freelance journalist who has…
LOFAR: A New Era In Radio Astronomy

LOFAR: A New Era In Radio Astronomy

With the press of a button, yesterday Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands activated LOFAR and started the recording of its first official image. LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is by all standards a big…