Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

Felt tip sketch, after an original pencil drawing by Frank Rines.

(This short piece on the film Silent Running appeared in Cinema Futura, edited by Mark Morris, in 2010.) In the future, some kind of cata...

One of my first record purchases. A snip at 1.49p.

Blue tit asleep in the nest box my wife and I put up last year. First resident we've had. Crappy picture, I know. Will try a better one ...

Today is the scheduled launch day of ARC, New Scientist's ambitious new SF/Futurism magazine - think OMNI updated for 2012. The magazine...

I had another go tonight. I set my scope up at 6.00 pm and was onto Jupiter very quickly. The first thing I did was make sure I was definite...