Simon Ings is a novelist (The Weight of Numbers) and a science writer (The Eye). He edits Arc, a magazine of futures and fiction from the makers of New Scientist. Of his most recent novel, Dead Water, Martin McGrath wrote: “He succeeds in getting you to care about what happens to these people and then he beats […]
February 17, 2012
Helen Keen is a stand-up comedian and writer. Her solo shows mix stand-up with science, storytelling and inventively homemade props, spinning comedy out of such arcane and unlikely subjects as 19th-century Arctic exploration, or the development of the robot. Helen’s award winning show about space, It is Rocket Science!, was developed into a show for Radio 4, […]
February 10, 2012
Matthew Sweet is a writer and broadcaster. He talks to Little Atoms about his latest book is The West End Front. Sweet presents Night Waves and Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 and The Philosopher’s Arms and The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British […]
February 3, 2012
Dr Stuart Clark is one of the UK’s most widely read astronomy journalists.  He talks to Neil Denny about his series of fiction, The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth Trilogy, now on it’s second book, The Sensorium of God. A former editor of Astronomy Now, He has a PhD in astrophysics and until 2001 was director of public astronomy education at the […]
February 24, 2012
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