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Five Things About My Works In Progress

To co-incide with the paperback release of the quite excellent novel by Gavin Smith The Age of Scorpio, the author has kindly agreed to provide SFBook with his thoughts on "five things about your work in progress".

So this five things about your work in progress meme thing has been doing the rounds, and I’ve...

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Some time ago we reported that NASA was working on a real live Warp Drive space ship, based on the principles of Alcubierre drive which is designed to bend the very fabric of space-time for propulsion. The project is being headed by NASA ace Dr Harold White.

Not content with just providing the theory, NASA continue to look at building a practical spaceship that could prove this theory. To help with this digital artist Mark...

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Win A copy of Midnight Crossroads to read at Midnight

To celebrate the release of Midnight, Crossroad; the new novel from best-selling author Charlaine Harris Gollancz are offering one lucky reader the chance to read the book in the comfort of a fantastic hotel at midnight on the launch day.

The winner will spend the night in a fantastic hotel...

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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
- Stephen King
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Collaborating With Myself by Paul McAuley

The Confluence series by Paul McAuley is vastly under-rated and deserves to be enjoyed by many more readers. The good folks over at Gollancz are thankfully providing a second chance of enjoying this powerful series. The author has re-edited the series into one glorious volume and to celebrate the launch of the...

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Further evidence we are all just a Hologram

Back in January 2009 we reported that German scientists had stumbled upon a strange problem that suggests that the univere is a holographic projection - a crazy theory I admit. Forward to October 2010 and physicist Craig Hogan has been busy building a holographic interferometer, or "Holometer" (which sounds like it came...

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