Fifty years ago this month, something extraordinary happened, a culmination of the entirety of human intellectual pursuit, international collaboration, technical expertise and engineering skill up to that point
Young Lara Bauer is too curious by far, her mind yearning for stimulation, her soul yearning for companionship beyond the stern tutelage of her governess Miss Fontaine and
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It was in 1962 that Shirley Jackson published the final novel she was to complete in her lifetime, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, three years after
Travelling to space is all about the numbers: velocity, altitude, mass, thrust, the thousands of variables which can lift a vast metal object from the surface of the
Lost in space, a bubble drifting without hope or direction, the starliner Aniara is out of control, the three week voyage from the Earth to Mars disrupted when
A regular and reliable contributor to the Edinburgh International Film Festival whose features The People vs George Lucas, The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus and