In case anyone missed it at the weekend...

In case anyone missed it at the weekend...

New #ScienceandSF blog post! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at Living Starships - featuring Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape and works by Justina Robson, Kameron Hurley and others. www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie... Comments always welcome.

New blog post! Today in #CosmicStories I look at humanity on trial in #scienceandSF. Featuring Williamson, Haldeman, Clifton, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Stranger on Venus and #StarTrek: The Next Generation amongst others. www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie... Comments always welcome.

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of the intramercurial planet Vulcan. Featuring stories from Rocklynne, Brackett, Cummings, Vincent and others. Comments always welcome. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie... #ScienceFiction #Astronomy

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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of oxygen... the deadliest gas. Featuring examples from Clarke, Thomas, Chain, Follett, Rocklynne and others. Comments always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

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New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I look at small time shifts in #ScienceandSF - are they really a recipe for invisibility? Including examples from Aldiss, Bayley, Rusch and others. Comments always welcome. www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_step_out/

New post! In today's Cosmic Stories blog, I take a look at the science and SF of lunar observatories, featuring Clarke, Richardson, Ley, Bova, Latner and others. Comments always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

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The Minor Planet Center has designated 3I/ATLAS = C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), or informally "Comet ATLAS", a new interstellar comet that is currently about 4.5 AU from the Sun and screaming through the solar system at 58 km/s (130000 mph)

Lots of excitement about a new candidate interstellar object: earthsky.org/space/new-in... I looked at interstellar objects in science and science fiction in Cosmic Stories a couple of years ago - might be time for an update! www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie... #astronomy #Science #ScienceFiction

New blog post day! Today I'm taking a look at reproductive technologies in science and science fiction. Featuring works by Haldane, Russell, Herbert, Sargent, Bujold and others. Comments always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_decanted_every/

Anyone who enjoyed my recent post on Language and Linguistics may be interested by a story I've just come across in the May/June 2025 edition of @analogsf.bsky.social Isolate by language hobbyist @tomrpike.bsky.social follows a linguist assigned to evaluate the language of the planet Emepera. 1/n

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New post day! Today in #CosmicStories, I take a look at the #ScienceandSF of Language and Linguistics, featuring works by Elgin, Vance, Delany, Sheckley and Masson amongst others, as well as Star Trek, Arrival and more. Comments always welcome. www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

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New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I'm taking a look at the protections and perils of personal shields in science and SF, including examples from Asimov, Anderson, Stargate Atlantis, Smith and others. Comments always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie... #scienceandSF

New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I'm taking a look at the protections and perils of personal shields in science and SF, including examples from Asimov, Anderson, Stargate Atlantis, Smith and others. Comments always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie... #scienceandSF

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New blog post! Today in my #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog, I'm returning to #Astronomy and looking at red dwarf stars and their planets in science and science fiction. Including works by Blish, Chambers, Asimov, Latham, Steele and others. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie... Comments welcome!

New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I take a look at the #scienceandSF of museums - how the guardians of the past relate to the literature of the future. Featuring Morris, Wells, Doctor Who, @kristinerusch.bsky.social, Bates and others. warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie... Comments always welcome!

Flashback time! Two years ago, I celebrated 50 years since first broadcast of The Tomorrow People by looking at stories of the next stage of human evolution: Homo superior. Featuring The Tomorrow People (of course), Sturgeon, Stapledon, Wyndham, Jaeger and others. warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

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New blog post day! Today I'm looking at symbiosis in science and science fiction. Featuring Star Trek, Stargate, Varley, Liu, Aldiss and others. Comments always welcome warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie... Happy Easter to those who celebrate! #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF

I wrote a book review for Keith Cooper's interesting new book "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" - if you're interested, you can read the review here: rdcu.be/eia1Q

In case anyone missed it at the weekend... #Physics #ScienceFiction

New blog day! Today, in #CosmicStories, I thought I'd stay close to home and focus on representations of academic research physicists in #ScienceandSF. Including works by Asimov, Le Guin, Liu, Benford, Renmore and others. Comments welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/the_noble_science

Couldn't resist posting my very poor but nonetheless genuine #solareclipse photo, taken in Coventry, 11:11am, 29th March 2025. #astronomy

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It's a new blog post day! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at actor/role confusion in science and SF, featuring Smith, Keith, Jurasik, Stargate, Captain Zoom and others... including of course GalaxyQuest. Comments always welcome. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/expecting_someone_different

Three years ago today, over on the Other Place, I was looking at the #ScienceandSF of rogue planets - the wandering worlds which are the target of both #astronomy surveys and #sciencefiction authors! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/rogue_planets Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech www.nasa.gov/topics/unive...

It's a new #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog day! This time I'm looking at the crucial role of technicians in both #Science and #ScienceFiction. Featuring Red Dwarf, Star Trek, Doctor Who and novels by Murray Leinster and others. Comments always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Time for a flashback. Three years ago today in #CosmicStories I was taking a look at aquatic humanity - the #ScienceandSF of humans adapted to exist in ocean environments - including Doctor Who and works by Saulter, Stephenson and Sinclair. Comments always welcome! warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

New blog post! Four years and a day after I started #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at the Ultimate Identity Theft in #ScienceandSF - identity replication. Featuring Star Trek, Bradbury, Bujold and others. Comments always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/ultimate_identity_theft

New post! Today in my #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog, I'm taking a look at some of the more ambitious transport networks in science fiction, featuring transatlantic tunnels, monorails and more. Comments always welcome. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/a_journey_too/

It's a new #CosmicStories blog day! Today, I'm looking at the #ScienceandSF representation of those with short stature. Featuring works by Asimov, Leinster, Chambers and Bujold, Doctor Who and others. Comments (or corrections) always welcome. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/phys...

New blog post! My first #CosmicStories post of 2025 looks at The Power of the Sun: space-based solar power (known as #SBSP or #SSP) in #ScienceandSF. Featuring Leinster, Gernsbach, Thunderbirds and others. Comments always welcome! warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

It's a new #CosmicStories blog day! Today it's #astronomy related, as I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of Saturn's moon Titan in science and science fiction. Featuring Clarke, Baxter, Swanwick, Nourse, Doctor Who and others. Comments are always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Investing the Christmas-NewYear lull time working on new Cosmic Stories #ScienceandSF blog entries to take us into the new year. Just as a reminder, a couple of weeks ago I posted on #mycology, #mycelial networks and #fungi 🍄 in #sciencefiction! New entry coming up on Sunday as usual!

It's a new blog post day! Today in #CosmicStories, I take a look at the #ScienceandSF of #fungi and mycelial networks. Featuring examples from Tepper, Thompson, Avatar, Star Trek Discovery and others. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/natures_sf_internet/ Comments always welcome

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New blog! Today in my #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog I'm taking a look at anticipations and portrayals of social media in science fiction, and its use for #scicomm. Featuring #BlackMirror, #DoctorWho, Spinrad, Forster, Saulter and others. warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie... Comments always welcome!

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It's time for a new blog entry! Today is a bit different to my normal focus - instead I'm revisiting my study of the relationship between professional astronomers and SF... astronomer-ology. Comments (and new examples) always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/astronomerology_ii

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Today in my #CosmicStories blog, I'm taking a look at the shadow cast by Werner Heisenberg over #ScienceandSF and how his work has been represented in science fiction. Featuring Star Trek, Herbert, Blish, Rusch, Wilber and others www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/the_shadow_of/ Comemnts welcome.

A new blog post! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at how the legends of the Sargasso Sea have been translated into SF, and what this tells us about our perceptions of science. Featuring Norton, Anderson, Dan Dare, Space:1999 and others. warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

It's a new blog day! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at drought-ridden Earths in #ScienceandSF, featuring Ballard, Maine, the Shustermans, Mad Max and others. www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/nor_any_drop