Cosmos magazine is released!

I've been following this since it cropped up on the Australian Science Communicators list - Cosmos is a new science magazine, published monthly. Damien Broderick (Melbourne sci-fi author, futurist, and a Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne Uni) is the magazine's fiction editor, although there is a heavy emphasis on non-fiction material by the looks of the first issue.

The magazine has a website at http://www.cosmosmagazine.com. From the site:

In Issue 1:
Living Forever: One of Australia's most respected science writers, Karen McGhee, delves into the science behind lengthening human lifespans, and finds that stalling the advance of old age is not only possible - it is being done.
Richard Dawkins in the Galápagos: The world-famous zoologist and author of The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale visits the iconic islands and describes a unique and adaptable survivor.
Walking on the Moon: Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, describes what it's actually like.
Who's reality is it anyway? Bruce Sterling investigates the increasing distance between soldiers and their war.

Cosmos will cover a broad range of topics - from art and design to the body and space. Each 112-page issue would aim to tell its readers more about the universe, the world they live in… and themselves.

The first issue also has a reprint of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains."

A year's subscription (in Australia) costs about $79. Until the end of the month, it also includes a DVD of the BBC Space documentary, Pyramid-Colosseum-Pompeii, or the BBC Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, and a 3-month subscription for a friend. I've just bought mine... now I'll just have to wait until it arrives :-)