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Author Index R	Keith Roberts
Title Index P	Pavane


Year	1966/1968
Publisher	Penguin Books
ISBN	0140105646

Synopsis	In the year 1588 Queen Elizabeth I was assassinated. The Spanish Armada swept to victory over the English - and the whole course of world history was astonishingly changed. In the year 1968 we find ourselves in a green and pleasant England ruled by the Church of Rome. There has been no Waterloo, no Passchendaele or Belsen. There are trains and primitive semaphore systems, but no telephone, no television, no H-bomb. Catholicism and the Inquisition exert their repressive grip, but rebellion is brewing, for the forces of progress and science will no longer be restrained ...

Review	'A tapestry of a book: A marvel of storytelling' SF Encyclopaedia 'A rare and beautiful book' Brian Aldiss

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	Credit: NASA
Supernova Blast Bonanza in Nearby Galaxy The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's "star factories" are also manufacturing brilliant blue star clusters. This galaxy had a sudden onset of star birth about 25 million years ago, which subsided about the time the very earliest human ancestors appeared on Earth.
NASA Image of the day archive

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