Tag: Science

  • Skyfaring – A Journey with a Pilot, by Mark Vanhoenacker

    Paperback, Vintage, £8.99, out now The cover of this book makes me want to jump on a plane and fly off somewhere.  As someone who likes flying, despite serious concerns about climate change, I thought I might like this book.  I was wrong.  I love it. If I’m looking for escape in a book, I’m…

  • The Long Earth: Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

    Paperback now available – sequel out June 20 For all his staggering success, Terry Pratchett’s a writer who benefits from a partner in prose, if only to rein in his relentless mirth making. The Long Earth, a novel with ‘hard’ SF author Stephen Baxter about a chain of parallel Earths, is not as knockabout as…