Bootprints on Mars
There has been a long-running disagreement among those involved in space science over which are better at exploring the Solar System: robots or human beings. The former, obviously, despite their huge...
View ArticleEric in space
Well, Eric in The Space Review, not actually in Low Earth Orbit or anything. Eric Choi provided one of the non-fiction essays in Rocket Science. It was titled ‘Making Mars A Nicer Place, in Fiction…...
View ArticleAward season
Nominations for the British Science Fiction Association Awards are open – in fact, they’ve been open for a couple of weeks, so I’m a little late with this reminder. But they’ll remain open until...
View ArticleRocket Science in America
Rocket Science contributor Eric Choi was at Capclave, the Washington Science Fiction Association’s annual convention, during the weekend 12 – 14 October. He had copies of Rocket Science with him, and...
View ArticleLife after Rocket Science
If you want to read more by some of Rocket Science‘s contributors, this November is a good month for it. First up, Berit Ellingsen has a new collection out, Beneath the Liquid Skin, from firthFORTH...
View ArticleThe Best Hard SF Anthology of the Year?
Which hard sf anthology did the Guardian newspaper describe as “superb”? Was it Edge of Infinity, the “sequel” anthology to 2010′s Engineering Infinity, both of which were edited by Jonathan Strahan? I...
View ArticleNew review of Rocket Science
Strange Horizons has published a review of Rocket Science, written by Dan Hartland. As is usually the case for Strange Horizons, it’s a long and in-depth review, and it says, among other things that...
View ArticleBSFA Award Shortlist
Excellent news! Karen Burnham’s ‘The Complexity of the Humble Spacesuit’ has been shortlisted for the BSFA Non-fiction Award. The shortlists were announced today, and the winners will be announced at...
View ArticleNew Rocket Science review
The latest copy of Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, landed on my doormat at the end of last week. No. 217, Winter 2012, includes a review of Rocket Science by...
View ArticleMission over
In its year-long mission to explore– On second thoughts, let’s not go there. Rocket Science, an original anthology of hard science fiction and non-fiction, was launched on 9 April 2012 and now, one...
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