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Those rubber duckies oceanographers have been tracking since 1992 are about to make landfall in the UK. Not the first time Old Blighty has been menaced by an armada.

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Living In Stereo argues that, far from being the best Beatles album SPLHCB was the worst . . . least best . . . um, not greatest non-soundtrack album.

Neil Gaiman argues that the science fiction novels of H.G. Wells, while fine, pale compared to his short stories. Gaiman says that the SF stories survive, while "many of the mainstream novels he considered more important and significant are gone and, for the most part, forgotten, perhaps because the novels were very much of their time."