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Turbulence by Giles Foden. Henry Meadows is a meteorologist, and in the brief sections of the book set in the "present", he...

The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page by GB Edwards. Ebenezer Le Page is an irascible old codger, as he himself tells us in the opening couple of ...

Nuclear-powered immaculately coiffured weirdly unlined futuristic sexbot Gigolo Joe , as played by Jude Law in A.I. Artificial Intelligence ...

The recent publication of the CIA torture report and the accompanying media brouhaha is extremely interesting in itself; almost more inter...

As with at least one earlier post , this is intended as much as a point of future reference for me as a source of great interest or exciteme...

We love a book list here at Electric Halibut, as you'll know from previous posts on the subject, so here's a couple that have come ...

I was inspired by the children's TV theme the other day to remember the post that I'd meant to do in the wake of this one a few mo...

It's not all your high-falutin' gender politics, post-modernism, literary criticism and improvised contemporary dance round here; I...

Just to lighten the tone a bit, here's Treetog from Tree Fu Tom and the Oracle from the Matrix movies - well strictly from the first ...

That last post was getting a bit long, and it was bedtime, but the thing I wanted to go on to do was draw a parallel between the furore ove...

Let's kick off with a bit of light-hearted smut: here's the BBC News article featuring some high-resolution images of the Philae pr...

At some point either yesterday or today something of great significance happened, a shifting, if you will, of the tectonic plates underlying...

Schooling by Heather McGowan. Catrine Evans is 13, and her American mother has recently died, so her Welsh father has brought them back...

Looks like we've got another potential exploding whale on our hands. This one is stinking up a beach in the Camargue National Park in...

I should start this post by saying: you'll notice there's an increasing level of cross-pollination between blog posts and tweets, us...

When you're a busy professional person and parent, you don't get a lot of free time to just wander off and go for a walk. When you...

It's a touching and poignant story of parental love across two generations, but I think the headline writers could probably have done a...

I'm not an obsessive porer over my blog stats, but it is sometimes interesting to have a browse around and see what's going on. What...

I thought I'd just document this, as much for my future reference as anything else, but also because it's simple and pretty deliciou...

As you know, I'm all about the Twitters these days, so when I had a thought in the wake of listening to Badge while writing the Jack Br...