Sibilant Fricative
Reviews of books and films, mostly science fictional, by Adam Roberts. That's all.
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[This review originally appeared in The Times, Sept 1st 2022] Encyclopedias are almanacs to real life, or most of them are. Diderot’s great Encyclopédie (1757-71) set out to describe all the ‘sciences, arts and crafts’. …
I’ve been thinking about deep space exploration, and indeed colonisation. Specifically: thinking about the rates of attrition of such future-voyages. We as a species have gone from sending actual breathing people to the moon to …
An article, from Littell's Living Age (13th September 1862), ‘A Voyage in the Air’, reports on two Victorian scientists, Henry Tracey Coxwell and James Glaisher, who ascended in a hot-air balloon to a height of …