“That place was a stage, our light the wrathful fire of the Antarctic sun, ourselves the actors in a scene stranger than any ever beheld.” The latest volume
Another cold December and another descent into the catacombs of the British Library for editor Tanya Kirk, lead curator of the archives covering the seventeenth to twentieth centuries,
Houston, 1973, the latter years of the American manned space programme and the astonishing ups and terrifying downs obtained at colossal cost which defined the greatest undertaking ever.
Carlota Moreau has grown up on the Yaxaktun estate in the dense jungles of the Yucatán Peninsula, sheltered physically but not intellectually, well read in science and literature
The light of science forever pushing the unknown further into the darker corners of the mind, human understanding does not change so rapidly as technology advances, new ideas
Along the fjords of Norway the sailing vessel Demeter heads north under the nominal command of Captain Van Vught, an expedition financed and guided by the ambitious and
His apparent nature during his life to be reclusive and his work predominantly set around the early 1700s, a hundred and fifty years before his birth, despite having
The enduring reputation of an author not necessarily the best measure of the quality of their writing, especially for an author who was not particularly prolific during their
One hundred and thirty-two years into its voyage the twenty-kilometre long Archimedes and its sister ships Bohr and Chandrasekhar are preparing to reignite their engines for braking day,
