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Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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Brian Clegg
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The Small Assassin - Ray Bradbury ****
It's a shame that the literati picked up on Fahrenheit 451, arguably one of Bradbury's less effective books to enthuse over, as it has got him labelled in some circles as a science fiction writer, where he was primarily a brilliant writer of fantasy. This collection of short stories features a number that could be described as fantasy, but as there are also some that don't have a fantasy eleme
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The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life
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| This is surely Caleb Scharf's most personal work - and certainly quite different from some of his earlier output, such as his excellent Gravity's Engines. In part this is a technological exploration of space travel, not unlike Final Frontier, but it ...more | |
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| There's a classic feel to Murder at Mistletoe Manor: a group of disparate strangers, trapped in a small hotel by heavy snow, face a murder. But here there's no Hercule Poirot to sort things out - the closest we have to a detective is a journalist who ...more | |
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| Unlike the general theory of relativity or cosmology, quantum physics is an aspect of physics that has had a huge impact on everyday lives, particularly through the deployment of electronics, but also, for example, where superconductivity has led to ...more | |
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| There's nothing like a good Christmas mystery this time of year - and this is nothing like one. Debbie Young's book is to a good Christmas mystery what a made-for-streaming Christmas movie is to It's a Wonderful Life. It is bland fare, if suitably fe ...more | |
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| When I read Miles Cameron's Artifact Space back in 2021 I was very impressed - somehow, I've not kept up the author who, for me comes closest to Alastair Reynolds in writing intelligent, engaging space opera. As a result it was a delight to return to ...more | |
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Sometimes when reading a book, just like being in any other relationship, you have to say ‘It’s not you, it’s me.’ Unfortunately, I really struggled to get on with James Riordon's eccentric take on gravity. It's not that the main areas of the topic ar ...more |
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| Starting this book by Martin Edwards can be a touch intimidating as it explicitly challenges the reader to solve two mysteries and a couple of cipher-like puzzles - but there's no need to panic as it's perfectly readable without putting yourself out ...more | |
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| At first glance a book about imaging technology sounds like one of those promotional titles that technology companies make about themselves that no one will ever read - but with a light, approachable touch, Daniel Sodickson takes us from the imaging ...more | |
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| There are some big gaps in my SF reading, particularly between mid 80s and the early 2000s - this novel from 1990 is hailed as a masterpiece, but I'm afraid it largely left me cold. I can see why it was well received - it's very clever, but for me it ...more | |
“Newton’s law of gravitation. That’s all you need (with a spot of calculus to crunch the numbers) to work out how the Earth will orbit the Sun or how an apple will fall if you let it go at a certain height. The only trouble is that Newton had no idea how this gravity thing worked. His model was simply: ‘There is an attraction between bits of stuff, and let’s not bother about why.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“Famously, Einstein said that his ‘happiest thought’ occurred here: ‘I was sitting in a chair in the Patent Office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me. If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled.’ By thinking of someone falling, for example in a plummeting lift, Einstein had realised that it was impossible to distinguish acceleration and the pull of gravity. And working through the mathematical implications of this made it clear that gravity was an effect that could be produced by a distortion of space and time.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.”
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
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