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A Modern Prometheus Re-modernised
Frankenstein: 10 possible meanings I had the pleasure last night of seeing this Danny Boyle production beamed live from The National Theatre to a local cinema. The above article from the BBC is a...
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Book Review: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
This is amongst the most intriguing of Wyndham’s work with a lot of subtext to mull over in such a short work. In some schools in the UK, it is still a set text, probably for that reason. The idea is...
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Book Review: Dune by Frank Herbert
Duke Leto of the House Atreides is given the contract to mine the all-precious spice melange from the sands of the harsh desert world Arrakis. His wife Jessica and son Paul leave the watery world of...
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Book Review: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Perhaps the most noteable of Clarke’s work, it is a Hugo and Nebula award winning novel and not without just cause. What at first is believed to be an asteroid entering the solar system is quickly...
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Book Review: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
In a century plagued with violence, intolerance, political and religious conflict, destruction of the environment and exploitation of the poor by the rich, humanity suddenly finds the planet Earth...
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John Jacob Astor – The Titanic disaster
To many, John Jacob Astor (IV) was the highest profile victim of the Titanic disaster that took place one hundred years ago today (it struck ice very late on the 14th April and sank in the early hours...
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Book Review: A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor
He is known as the most high-profile victim of the Titanic disaster that happened 100 years ago last week. Philanthropist, businessman and part of the American high society of the late 19th and early...
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A Modern Prometheus Re-modernised
MG Mason:This is a post I wrote in March last year after seeing the stage play. Cinemas around the UK will be re-showing the production on 14th and 21st June. On the 14th, Cumberbatch will play the...
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A Modern Prometheus Re-modernised
Frankenstein: 10 possible meanings I had the pleasure last night of seeing this Danny Boyle production beamed live from The National Theatre to a local cinema. The above article from the BBC is a great...
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Book Review: Dune by Frank Herbert
Duke Leto of the House Atreides is given the contract to mine the all-precious spice melange from the sands of the harsh desert world Arrakis. His wife Jessica and son Paul leave the watery world of...
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Book Review: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
In a century plagued with violence, intolerance, political and religious conflict, destruction of the environment and exploitation of the poor by the rich, humanity suddenly finds the planet Earth...
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