SF Magazine Cover Scans – Part 3 – Warren Ellis and Original Light

1983, O Levels just out of the way, a pile of SF novels and comics that just kept getting bigger and a search for fellow minded fanboys (I was influenced by the American writers who talked so lovingly of having Heinlein or Sturgeon on the letters pages of the very same mags that they went on to write for and stories of SF conventions that made you jealous that you were in Southend in the 1980′s and not in New York in the 1930′s).

So a fellow at school, Matt, he of the V for vendetta logo on his bag and his slight Guy Fawkes demeanor, told me about the stuff he was doing. Sounded cool. So a meeting was arranged, there were like minded people in Southend, people who enjoyed SF and thought they would be able to do it for themselves.

Building Demolition Fails: A Compilation

Following the events in Vancouver where a demolition of a three storey building went very wrong, splattering the road with concrete and almost causing injury (almost but not quite, so that the demolition company could say with a degree of truth that it was a good news story because nobody was hurt) I thought I would post up some examples of other classic demolition fails that can be found on Youtube

Just how big is the Internet?

The Internet is big…real big. Check out this graphic to see the staggering statistics for an average day!

The Longest Way

Christoph Rehage decided in 2007 to walk from Beijing to Germany.

Going on foot for 4500 km he didn’t make it to Germany but stopped a little short of his target, making it passed the Gobi Desert before deciding to stop the journey for now.

He did, however, manage to have some great experiences on the way and blogged about them on his website (The Longest Way ).

He also posted up an inspirational video of his journey which can be seen below and shows how he changed as the journey went on.

Karel Capek

‘Sometimes it happens like that, and we discover a new world in our own homelands.’

Havelock Ellis

“It was the hair of the bright flaxon sort, which the poets have conventionally called ‘golden’, the hair one sees so often on the angels of the Italian primitive painters ‑ though not so often ...

The Strange World Of Planet X

“Dr. Laird’s gone mad and the Brigadier is afraid he’ll start his machine again, sir.”