by Duncan Lunan The Moon is Full on June 30th, meanwhile passing near Saturn in the morning sky on the 10th, and Mars on the 13th. It’s New on the 15th, near Mercury and Jupiter on the 16th, very near Venus in early evening of the 17th, passing Regulus in Leo on the 19th, and […]
Review by Duncan Lunan. Lavie Tidhar, “The Circumference of the World”, pbk, 238 +4 pp., Tachyon Publications, 2023. First published in different form, ParSec # 9, 9th February 2024. In this novel, Lode Stars is the title of one written in the 1950s by an imaginary pulp-SF author called Eugene Charles Hartley, founder of the […]
Review by Duncan Lunan “Moonrise, The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures” and “Lost Mars, The Golden Age of the Red Planet”, edited by Mike Ashley, £8.99 each, pbk and eBook, British Library, 224 pp., 2018. First published in different form, Interzone 275, May 2018 These two collections were the first of a new series of […]
Review by Duncan Lunan. The Apollo Chronicles, Engineering America’s First Moon Missions (2019), Brandon R. Brown, Oxford University Press, hbk, £19.99, xiv + 269 pp. First published in different form, Concatenation, April 2020. In total, roughly 400,000 people worked in the Apollo programme. The astronauts, and particularly Neil Armstrong, have always emphasised that their accomplishments […]
Review by Duncan Lunan. Heroes of the Space Age: Incredible Stories of the Famous and Forgotten Men and Women Who Took Humanity to the Stars, (2019) Rod Pyle, Prometheus, trade paperback, 299 pp. First published in different form, Concatenation, 15th September 2019. In Heroes of the Space Age Rod Pyle turned from the topic of […]
by Duncan Lunan The Moon is Full on March 3rd, and New on the 19th. On the 3rd there’s a total eclipse of the Moon over the Americas, Asia and Australasia, not visible elsewhere. On the evening of the 19th there’s a chance to find the very young Moon, just 17 hours old, when it’s […]
by Duncan Lunan On January 17th, as promised, the Space Launch System booster and the Orion capsule for the Artemis 2 lunar mission were together rolled out to Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center (Figs. 1 & 2). The first ‘wet dress rehearsal’ for launch was held on February 3rd, and was halted […]
Review by Duncan Lunan. Iron Winter (2012) Stephen Baxter, Gollancz, trdpbk, £14.99, 474 pp. First published in different form in Concatenation, online, January 2013. Following Book One: Stone Spring and Bronze Summer (ON, 8th & 15th February 2026), this novel concludes Stephen Baxter’s Northland trilogy, set on the plain of what in our world is […]
Review by Duncan Lunan. Stephen Baxter, “Northland: Book Two – Bronze Summer”, Gollancz, £14.99, 424 pp, 2011. First published in different form in Concatenation, online, April 2012. Following Book One: Stone Spring (ON, 8th February 2026), Stephen Baxter continued the Northland series (Fig. 1) with Bronze Summer (Figs. 2 & 3), still set on the […]
Review by Duncan Lunan Stephen Baxter, “Stone Spring – Northland: Book One”, £18.99/12.99, 464 pp, Gollancz, 2010 First published in different form, Concatenation, online, 2010. In ‘The Sky Above You, February 2026’ (ON, 3rd February 2026), I mentioned how I learned about the Storegga mudslides off the continental shelf of Norway, from Prof. David Smith’s […]