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 Reviews The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of AntarcticaNovember 2008
The Ferocious Summer is primarily the story of the time that Meredith Hooper spent at Palmer Station, a small U.S. Antarctic facility on Anvers Island.  UniverseNovember 2008
A lavish, no-expense-spared piece of coffee table exotica, this book is a strong candidate for the best volume on astronomy available to the general reader.  Future FilesNovember 2008
Writer, speaker and futurist Richard Watson is upfront in calling Future Files a book for business, and the reader could be forgiven for expecting another treatise on how big business can extract more money out of us.  Torchwood (Series 1, Part 2)November 2008
The BBC's celebrated capacity to pull entertaining rabbits out of unprepossessing hats has led the British broadcaster on some peculiar enterprises over the decades, but I'll wager there have been few quite so curious as Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off series screened last year on Channel 10.  BrasylNovember 2008
Following the success of his award-winning novel River of Gods, British science fiction writer Ian McDonald has once again produced an ultra-rich mix of complex concepts, wild action and dazzling prose, underpinned by an impressive depth of knowledge of the culture in which the story is set.  The Haunted ObservatoryNovember 2008
When we read the history of scientific ideas, almost invariably we read of a progression of linear advances that have led to our current level of understanding. Yet, in fact, science is a story in which most of the action occurs not on brightly lit pathways of progress but in blind alleys and darkened cul-de-sacs.  Glut: Mastering Information Through the AgesNovember 2008
In Glut, Alex Wright has crafted a worthy history lesson on classification systems. If that sounds dull, then consider it was humanity's passion for making lists and scribbling receipts that led to books, libraries, the democratisation of knowledge and - ta dah! – the Internet.  The Age of EverythingNovember 2008
The Age of Everything provides an explanation of some of the important ways that scientists are able to establish the age of objects, from archaeological artefacts to the universe itself.  What's Science Ever Done For Us?November 2008
You could argue that of all the freeze-dried cornmeal on television, The Simpsons most accurately depicts human behaviour – even though the cast are bright yellow.  Why is Uranus Upside Down?November 2008
Despite the cheeky title, the only bodies involved here are heavenly ones – but of the strictly astronomical kind.  Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the MachineNovember 2008
Will we ever see intelligent machines? Do we really want them? Beyond AI is a full-scale review as well as a defence of the artificial intelligence program – both its feasibility and its moral desirability.  The HostNovember 2008
The hapless heroine is endearing, the family eccentric and comedic and, yes, there's something nasty at the bottom of the garden – well, the river, actually. Yep, the 'creature feature' is back with the Australian release of Korean blockbuster The Host, a tale of pollution and mutation on a grand scale in present-day Seoul.  Cosmos: A Personal VoyageJuly 2008
The groundbreaking TV series from 1980 documents what we have learned about the universe in which we live. Astronomer Carl Sagan fronts the show and pushes the underlying message that knowledge uncovered by science has bestowed upon us a great responsibility.  The PrefectJuly 2008
Alastair Reynolds' The Prefect is a complex space opera about the inhabitants of the Glitter Band. Set about 500 years in the future, it follows the story of the Prefects of the Panoply, a law enforcement agency set up to protect democracy in the region.  Saturn ReturnsJuly 2008
When Imre Bergamasc wakes up on a Jinc ship on the outer edges of the galaxy, he has lost his memory, but remembers enough to realise that he should not be in a female body. It is the 879th millennium AD, and human life has changed almost unrecognisably. 
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