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 Reviews 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.  Life in the UniverseJuly 2008
What is 'life' and how did something so delicate take hold in a universe that suffered such a violent birth? In Life in the Universe, Lewis Dartnell applies the relatively new discipline of astrobiology to those questions.  The New Time TravelersJuly 2008
In The New Time Travelers, technical writer David Toomey puts forward a positive, though cautious, case that we might one day travel through time.  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.  Climate CrashJuly 2008
In Climate Crash, by John Cox, there is no debate about the scale of rapid climate change, just the facts about how it was discovered and theories on what triggers it.  Old Man’s WarJanuary 2008
Old Man’s War closely follows the structure set up by Starship Troopers and the other military sci-fi classic, The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman: recruit, training, fighting, promotion and more fighting. However, Scalzi fills in the gaps with his own creations to make his book something more than a replica.  Atoms and AlchemyJanuary 2008
William Newman highlights the work of Daniel Sennert, a German academic who in 1618 declared that since the transmutation of metals had been seen in nature, “the same can also be done by art”.  Why The Sky is BlueJanuary 2008
Why is the sky blue? It’s a question that has been asked for at least 2,500 years and presumably much longer. In this book, Hoeppe documents our attempts to answer the question, starting in the fourth century BC and continuing up to the present.  Coral: A Pessimist in ParadiseJanuary 2008
Steve Jones is a big fan of Charles Darwin. In an earlier book, Almost Like A Whale, he took on the extraordinary task of updating The Origin of Species, which he described as the “most original book of the millennium”.  Why Does My Dog Act That Way? A Complete Guide to Your Dog’s PersonalityJanuary 2008
Stanley Coren is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and his insights into dog psychology and behaviour are fascinating. Coren’s previous books about dog behaviour include the best-sellers The Intelligence of Dogs and How Dogs Think.  Déjà VuJanuary 2008
Here’s a thriller that combines the trademark pace of Jerry Bruckheimer, the gritty realism of director Tony Scott and the vulnerable action hero leading man that Denzel Washington reliably conjures up on such occasions. And then there’s the time travel.  GlasshouseJanuary 2008
Glasshouse is a fast-paced, zippy thriller of a science fiction novel. It is no accident that it has been shortlisted for the Hugo Award in the best novel category this year.  Black ManJanuary 2008
Richard Morgan’s new novel is set a couple of hundred years into the future. Earth is divided into new power blocs, the United States is united no more and the world is as riven with factional discord as it is today.  The Universe: A BiographyJanuary 2008
The story begins 14 billion years ago. Somewhere in a vacuum (one school of thought would have it), a quantum ripple upset the apple cart and – BAM! One-ten-thousand-billionth of a second later a ball of pure energy, 1029 degrees Kelvin, begins its inevitable task, as described by the Standard Model of particle physics, of creating the universe. 
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