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Elizabeth Stanway
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Co-lead of the BPASS project, writer of the Cosmic Stories Science-and-Science-Fiction blog. Reader in Astrophysics at Warwick Uni, but posting my own views only.
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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I'm going to take a deep dive. I'm considering Doctor Who serial "Robot" as a case study of representations of robot intelligence, science and scientists in the 1970s.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie... (correct link!)

#DoctorWho #ScienceandSF #AI
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I'm going to take a deep dive. I'm considering Doctor Who serial "Robot" as a case study of representations of robot intelligence, science and scientists in the 1970s.

https;//www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/doctor_whos_robot/

#DoctorWho #ScienceandSF #AI
Image from 1974 BBC serial "Robot", in television series Doctor Who. With title and address of blog.
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Well done for getting it sorted. And even if you weren't referenced this time, I think I may have mentioned your Home on Lagrange filk in an earlier blog article! warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/phys...
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm looking at the #ScienceandSF of think tanks and scientific hothouses i.e. intensive science research centres. Featuring Eureka, Doctor Who, Star Trek and work by Asimov, Higgins, Smith and others

www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

Comments always welcome
Title and link to blog with background image of building from television series Eureka.
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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New #CosmicStories blog post! Today, we're looking at #SpyFi - the glorious overlap between espionage, #ScienceandSF and what it tells us about how science is perceived. Featuring The Man from UNCLE. The Avengers, James Bond and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

Comments always welcome!
Title and link to blog, with a background image from The Man from UNCLE.
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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It's a new #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog day! I'm returning to home ground of #astronomy with a look at Habitable Exomoons. Featuring Star Trek, Star Wars, Avatar and works by Asimov and Chambers amongst others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments welcome!
Picture of an Earth-like and Saturn-like world with title and address of blog.
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm looking at narratives of Earth's overpopulation in #ScienceandSF. Featuring Hershey, Harrison, Silverberg, Soylent Green, Logan's Run and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome!
Image of vast cityscape, with title and link to blog.
October 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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New #ScienceandSF blog post! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at Living Starships - featuring Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape and works by Justina Robson, Kameron Hurley and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome.
Title and link to blog with image of living ship Moya from television series Farscape.
September 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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New blog post! Today in #CosmicStories I look at humanity on trial in #scienceandSF. Featuring Williamson, Haldeman, Clifton, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Stranger on Venus and #StarTrek: The Next Generation amongst others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

Comments always welcome.
Title and address of blog.
September 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of the intramercurial planet Vulcan. Featuring stories from Rocklynne, Brackett, Cummings, Vincent and others. Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

#ScienceFiction #Astronomy
Title and link of blog with AI generated image of planet in front of sun.
August 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at the #ScienceandSF of oxygen... the deadliest gas. Featuring examples from Clarke, Thomas, Chain, Follett, Rocklynne and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...
Background image of billowing clouds. Title and address of blog.
August 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I look at small time shifts in #ScienceandSF - are they really a recipe for invisibility? Including examples from Aldiss, Bayley, Rusch and others. Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_step_out/
Title and address of blog with spacetime diagram in the background.
July 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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New post! In today's Cosmic Stories blog, I take a look at the science and SF of lunar observatories, featuring Clarke, Richardson, Ley, Bova, Latner and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...
AI generated image of a possible lunar observatory with title of blog.
July 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Lots of excitement about a new candidate interstellar object: earthsky.org/space/new-in...

I looked at interstellar objects in science and science fiction in Cosmic Stories a couple of years ago - might be time for an update!
www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

#astronomy #Science #ScienceFiction
Artists impression of interstellar object Oumuamua. image: NASA
July 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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New blog post day! Today I'm taking a look at reproductive technologies in science and science fiction. Featuring works by Haldane, Russell, Herbert, Sargent, Bujold and others.

Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/one_decanted_every/
Title and address of blog, with background image from the MIT Press edition of Man's World by Charlotte Haldane.
June 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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New post day! Today in #CosmicStories, I take a look at the #ScienceandSF of Language and Linguistics, featuring works by Elgin, Vance, Delany, Sheckley and Masson amongst others, as well as Star Trek, Arrival and more.

Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...
Image of a human talking to an alien with the blog title and web address.
June 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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New blog day! Today in #CosmicStories I'm taking a look at the protections and perils of personal shields in science and SF, including examples from Asimov, Anderson, Stargate Atlantis, Smith and others. Comments always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStorie...

#scienceandSF
Image of man in personal shield with blog title and link.
June 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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New blog post! Today in my #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog, I'm returning to #Astronomy and looking at red dwarf stars and their planets in science and science fiction. Including works by Blish, Chambers, Asimov, Latham, Steele and others.

www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

Comments welcome!
AI-generated view of a planet under a red dwarf sun, with title and link to blog. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/scarlet_skies
May 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I take a look at the #scienceandSF of museums - how the guardians of the past relate to the literature of the future. Featuring Morris, Wells, Doctor Who, @kristinerusch.bsky.social, Bates and others.

warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

Comments always welcome!
Image of a futuristic museum with title and link to blog.
May 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Flashback time! Two years ago, I celebrated 50 years since first broadcast of The Tomorrow People by looking at stories of the next stage of human evolution: Homo superior.

Featuring The Tomorrow People (of course), Sturgeon, Stapledon, Wyndham, Jaeger and others.

warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...
Image of open hand from opening sequence of The Tomorrow People
April 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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New blog post day! Today I'm looking at symbiosis in science and science fiction. Featuring Star Trek, Stargate, Varley, Liu, Aldiss and others. Comments always welcome

warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie...

Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

#CosmicStories #ScienceandSF
Detail from illustration for Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, showing two people embracing, together with address of blog: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/better_together
April 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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New blog day! Today, in #CosmicStories, I thought I'd stay close to home and focus on representations of academic research physicists in #ScienceandSF. Including works by Asimov, Le Guin, Liu, Benford, Renmore and others. Comments welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/the_noble_science
Man looking up at planet. Detail from cover illustration for The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin. Title of and link to blog: www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/the_noble_science
April 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Although I'm also a strong colander advocate for eclipses!
March 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Couldn't resist posting my very poor but nonetheless genuine #solareclipse photo, taken in Coventry, 11:11am, 29th March 2025. #astronomy
March 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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It's a new blog post day! Today in #CosmicStories, I'm taking a look at actor/role confusion in science and SF, featuring Smith, Keith, Jurasik, Stargate, Captain Zoom and others... including of course GalaxyQuest. Comments always welcome.

www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/expecting_someone_different
Blog title and URL, with a background image from the film GalaxyQuest.
March 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM