Posted in Russian Series, tagged Laika, rockets, Sergei Korolev, space, sputnik, Wernher von Braun, Yuri Gagarin on February 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A review of The Space Race by Deborah Cadbury and Red Moon Rising by Matthew Brzezinski
Part of VL’s celebration of The International Year of Astronomy
Like a good rail service, space travel is, and should be, boring, a steady sequence of predictable events with everything turning up on time and only failure drawing your attention to [...]
Posted in Fiction: science fiction, Theme weeks on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We don’t normally go in for film/TV reviews, but as it’s Geek Week, and also rather good timing, we thought it would be fun to let our very own manga/anime Mistress Lesley Gallacher loose on the newly released ‘Star Fleet’ DVD set – referred to earlier in the week. This is the result:
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In the [...]
Posted in Theme weeks, tagged Black Arrow, boffin, Britain, engineering, genes, mobile phone, rockets, Sanger, space, technology, vodafone on February 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A Review of Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford
Of the half-witteries that have brought us to the present crisis, one of the worst is `creative industry’. This is a phrase used to describe music, television, advertizing and other pursuits where overpaid mediocrities are held up as the saviours of the nation because they can sometimes gull [...]
Posted in Theme weeks, tagged batman, comics, John Kenedy, Nightwing, retcon, serials, Superman on February 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Article by John Kennedy
A lot of the time, when we hear about comics these days, it’s about how they are now a valid medium, or how it’s now okay to think of them as art. How comics have proven that they can tell stories as compelling and meaningful as those in other media. How there [...]
Posted in Entries by Moira, Fiction: science fiction, Theme weeks, tagged ADR, Aliens, Go Nagai, Jay Benedict, looping, Shiro Hagen, Star Fleet, Star Wars, X Bomber on February 24, 2009 | 26 Comments »
Being edited out of one blockbuster science fiction movie is unfortunate. Being edited out of two must begin to feel personal – but that’s exactly what happened to regular Vulpes Libris guest Jay Benedict – and Moira (always happy to poke around in tender places) thought that ‘Geek Week’ was an ideal excuse to find [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aliens, boffins, Go Nagai, monthly comics, Ray Bradbury, Russian Space Programme, Star Fleet X-Bomber, Star Wars on February 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
IT’S GEEK WEEK!
It’s time to discover your inner geek.
And if you thought that geeks were just sad Billy no-mates with regrettable personal hygiene standards, zero dress sense and the social skills of an amoeba, think again.
Geek is the new black. Geek is cool.
Don’t believe us? Read ‘em and weep …
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On Monday Jackie sketches a [...]
Posted in Special Features, Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »
TELL ME A STORY
The book world is panicking. (Again.) The latest version of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader has a text to speech function that enables it to read a book out loud. Admittedly it’s still quite computer-speaky, but the technology is better than it used to be, and is improving all the time. The prospect [...]
Posted in Entries by Eve, tagged book, children, fairies, Michelle Harrison, The Thirteen Treasures, Waterstone's on February 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
First of all Congratulations to Michelle Harrison for winning the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize with her debut novel The 13 Treasures. I was lucky enough to have been given a copy of the book before it was released (have I made it clear how much I love my job yet???) and I raced through [...]
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