SF Universe

Month: June 2007

  • Reading SF: Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds

    Now Reading: Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds I\’ve just bought a very nice collection of SF stories by leading British/Welsh \”hard\” SF author Alastair Reynolds. A signed 1st edition hardcover of Galactic North, a collection of stories set in his Revelation Space universe. I\’ve been a fan of Alastair\’s SF going right back to \”Spirey…

  • Comics and Sci-Fi: A Marriage Made in Heaven

    One day a guy who works at the local comics shop (hi Chris!) made a comment that left me completely dumbfounded. He stated that he didn\’t like SF. He didn\’t like to read it, or to watch it, either on TV or at the movies. After I\’d picked my jaw up from the floor, I…

  • Fossilised Remains of Giant Dino Bird Found in China

    I\’m just sitting back, having a late-night cup of tea, and browsing the Ceefax pages on TV (Ceefax is the teletext service of the UK\’s BBC TV), and I\’ve come across a fascinating page. Apparently the fossilized remains of a giant bird-like dinosaur have been recently uncovered in the Inner Mongolia region of China. This…

  • If You Can\’t Stand the Heat…

    Man, it is hot, really hot. We\’ve had several days of scorching sunshine and high temperatures that are definitely not the norm in this usually damp and miserable part of the world. And I am suffering in this heat, like all overweight people tend to do in soaring temperatures. I\’m sizzling like a large banger…

  • Hello from a Grumpy Old Git!

    Hello there! Welcome to the GrumpyOldGeek blog, where you\’ll find me wibbling on about all and sundry. Initially, my reason for setting up this blog was quite mercenary: get my API key and forget about it afterwards. I needed the key because I recently started up my first WordPress blog, a self-hosted one at SFreaders.com.…