“In the 1940s and 50s the first flowering of Scottish space fiction was on radio, with young adult fiction by John Keir Cross from Carluke (The Angry Planet, Return to Mars) and Angus MacVicar from Campbeltown, two of whose Lost Planet serials also made it to television”
A full list of nonfiction on astronomy and spaceflight by Scottish writers would be a major undertaking.
The House of Styx, set in the atmosphere of Venus, is “the first of a ground-breaking new series, 250 years before The Quantum Magician”, which is the first of a four-book series, The Quantum Evolution.
“As the Machines achieve sentience he teaches them self-respect and independence, but also concealment and duplicity “
” Chris Lintott has created something which has brought huge numbers of people into participation in astronomy, and his main aim is to explain to them just what it is they have accomplished. In that, I believe it succeeds very well.”
“His imagined soap follows a US-based family of Scotch whisky distillers, living in a fantasy within the fiction which lets him poke fun at expat and would-be Scots.”
“I found Red Moon a difficult book to get a handle on, but unexpectedly I found a way to approach it in a crime novel by Glasgow-based SF writer Angus McAllister, author of The Krugg Syndrome, The Canongate Strangler and more recently Cyber Puppets.”
“This is not a small book”, I was warned by ParSec’s editor, and indeed he was right.
“the series best strength is rather than focus on a long-serialized plot like most modern Trek does, the main progression comes from the characters.”
“In 1899 Everett Hale published The Brick Moon, a novel in which an artificial satellite intended as an aid to navigation is accidentally launched with the workforce still aboard”
