Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking ‘When we see the earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole …. with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.’ Stephen Hawking’s final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, makes a few optimistic predictions. It also hands out some chilling warnings. …
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle 'It was a dark and stormy night ...' With the first sentence of her junior sci-fi novel A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle dares to challenge the publishing establishment. Even in 1960, when she wrote it, and 1962, when it was published, L'Engle must have known the extent to which the sentence …
Only a Matter of Time
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov The possibility that we might visit our planet's history - and maybe influence it - is the most tantalising of all fantasies. Perhaps, instead, we might travel into the future and, as observers, discover whether our descendants are still reading books, or watching films. What new mythologies can …
