Charlie Fitzer has not got a lot going for him. An ex-journalist turned reluctant substitute teacher whose wife left him and whose father passed away recently, he had one goal and hope. Become the new owner of the town’s beloved institution of a watering hole, McDougal’s Pub alongside his beloved pet cat Hera.
This young adult novel by C.R. Coen is definitely quite the adventure.
‘Proud Guns to the Sea’, Analog, January 1973, was based on the ballad Henry Martin, quoting it in the title, and included a planet called Hallway, lifted from the 8th century Irish Donal Óg
What got me completely hooked was the first ‘Lost Planet’ radio serial on Children’s Hour, by the late Angus MacVicar, in 1953.
On 10th of September 1993, The X-Files” TV show, created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson was first shown on Fox.
” Hackett wakes to a future in which the Sun is a white dwarf, Milkomeda is dying, and the rest of the Universe is beyond visibility, due to accelerated expansion driven by dark energy. “
‘Although the subtitle of this book promises ‘Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny beyond Earth’,page 13 issues something of a warning note. “To do this, we will have to exploit the fourth wave of science, which consists of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and biotechnology’’
“Jeff Hawke began as a squadron leader, an RAF test pilot sent up to investigate a UFO over southern England “
“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.
