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 Reviews Doctor Who, The BeginningApril 2007
Whether you're a committed fan or, like this reviewer, an occasional but curious dipper-in, you can't help admiring the BBC's unflinching devotion to committing the whole of the good doctor's adventures to DVD.  Where Did We Come From?September 2006
Where Did We Come From? is the Australian edition of a book sold overseas as The Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins. It is a beautifully illustrated account of human evolution, from the first hominids to relatively recent times when Homo sapiens began to spread across the world.  K-MachinesSeptember 2006
K-Machines is a sequel to Godplayers (2005), with which it forms a complete diptych. They develop an appealing vision of how a high-technology future might turn out, if everything goes as well as we can hope.  Where Stuff Comes FromSeptember 2006
Where Stuff Comes From is interested not so much in objects themselves and how they work, as in the sociology of why we want 'stuff', how it fits into our lives, and how and why designers create it for us.  Space RaceSeptember 2006
Amid the current spate of books concerning the 1960s comes this dramatic retelling of humanity's first steps on its journey into space.  The Unexpected Einstein: The Real Man Behind the IconSeptember 2006
In The Unexpected Einstein, Denis Brian examines and, where necessary, corrects many myths that have grown up around the real Albert Einstein.  Addicted to OilSeptember 2006
Ian Rutledge's book chronicles the rise of America's oil dependency, its political and geological explorations in the Middle East, and some of the science and history of oil itself.  Pushing IceSeptember 2006
Alastair Reynolds has effortlessly produced space operas with a gothic bent and cooler-than cool protagonists. In Pushing Ice, Reynolds tones down the space battles for an intelligent novel of man's future among the stars.  Red Dwarf, Series 8September 2006
Series 8 of Red Dwarf, recorded in 1998, is the final series of the iconic British science fiction comedy.  The Ascent of ManAugust 2006
With today's television largely devoted to supplying what the Latin poet Juvenal described as "bread and circuses", it comes as a surprise to discover just how challenging and engaging the medium can be when used to its potential.  Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious NumberAugust 2006
Good old pi. The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. According to this book, pi's been known - in an approximate form - since about 2000bc. And, of course, because the thing is 'irrational' (a number which can't be expressed as a finite decimal number) we will never have anything but approximations.  The Blue PlanetAugust 2006
There is little doubt that the world would be a poorer place without the BBC's natural science documentaries, as it would without the well-modulated passions of David Attenborough.  E=mc²August 2006
Everyone's heard of it, but what does E=mc² - the world's most famous equation - really mean? And why did it change the world? A review of the DVD edition of the Nova television series.  SerenityJune 2006
Humanity has reached the stars, seeking an alternative to an overpopulated Earth. A war between the Alliance and the Separatists has left the Alliance in control. On the fringes of the galaxy, mercenaries, bandits and cannibalistic Reavers roam. The Serenity and its crew, including Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Fillion) are rogues, trawling space for adventure and profit.  Earth Time: Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand CanyonJune 2006
Less than two centuries ago devout Englishmen pronounced that the fossils of animals that lived tens of thousands (or even millions) of years ago, had once been creatures killed in the Biblical flood survived only by Noah and his 'passengers'. In the standard early Victorian view, the Earth was created in 4004bc, and the alluvial deposits around the mouth of the Thames sat on top of debris left by the flood. 
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