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Saturday, October 29, 2011

E-BOOKS1: MICHAEL S. HART

Michael S. Hart , the founder of e-books and Project Gutenberg died some eight weeks ago. What a remarkable and inspiring man. This obituar...

e-BOOKS2: THE DEATH OF THE BOOK

THE HYPE CYCLE Thought it would be interesting and informative to investigate the ‘death of the book’ phenomenon. Look this up on Goo...

Sunday, October 23, 2011

ALAN MOORE: GENIUS AT WORK

As chance would have it, having completed posts on New Worlds and Jim Cawthorn, both of which involved Michael Moorcock, I received thi...

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

NEW WORLDS: OLD AND NEW

Top Left: Issue 176 (Oct 1967). Cover by Richard Hamilton from the ‘This is Tomorrow’ exhibition 1956. Top Right: Issue 178 (Dec 19...

JIM CAWTHORN

One of the great illustrators that appeared in New Worlds was the late Jim Cawthorn. Another recent discov...

CURIOUS FACTS: METEORITES

UPDATED AND CORRECTED/JAN 2016 A 4.5 billion year old meteorite weighing 1.7 kilograms was discovered in a dried-up lake in sou...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

WALL STREET PROTESTS: USA

Noam Chomsky, the leading academic and public intellectual, has issued a statement in support of the “courageous and honorable protests” o...

YOUTH RIOTS: CHILE

Source: camila_vallejo_mosaic_by_cornejo_sanchez-d461n0j.jpg One of the underreported stories of the year, at least as far as the Bri...

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