September and October are always busy months at my university – students are submitting their dissertations, assessments need to be marked, and the overall pace

September and October are always busy months at my university – students are submitting their dissertations, assessments need to be marked, and the overall pace
As I was reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora, I kept thinking of that old quote from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one
It’s been a couple of months since I last regaled you with my musings. I’ve been fairly busy giving lectures, marking assignments, and in gluttonous consumption of
It would be remiss of me not to write a quick post about Arthur C. Clarke on the sixth anniversary of his death. I was
It’s no secret that Arthur C. Clarke is my favourite SF author. The first SF novel I ever read was 2001: A Space Odyssey, and