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morsla ([personal profile] morsla) wrote2005-06-23 11:52 am

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 :-)

[identity profile] virtual-munkee.livejournal.com 2005-06-23 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
ohmigod now i know what to do with my bday money!! :) thanks for the tipoff!

[identity profile] bishi-wannabe.livejournal.com 2005-06-23 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
When did my impulse buy threshold reach $80?

Anyway, I'm subscribed ^_^

[identity profile] morsla.livejournal.com 2005-06-23 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure... mine seems to have done something similar ;)

The magazine has a very good team behind it, though - plenty of experience amongst them, and it's filling a niche that's been empty for a while. Should be a good read.

[identity profile] submystical.livejournal.com 2005-06-23 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
No fair! It would cost me $150 to subscribe from here. Nearly double. :(

[identity profile] morsla.livejournal.com 2005-06-23 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Would it be cheaper to post them across to Japan by regular mail? If so, I could forward them on to you... there would be a bit of a delay, but they'd still get there.

[identity profile] submystical.livejournal.com 2005-06-23 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have to look into it.

[identity profile] aeliel.livejournal.com 2005-06-24 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, I like the new layout. Spartan, functional and stylish.

[identity profile] sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com 2005-06-24 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Bugger. They had me on everything but the Sterling article, and I swore seven years ago that I'd get a hot Clorox enema before I'd buy another magazine with an article from "The Barney the Dinosaur of the Wired crowd" in it.