June 2011

A neutron star devouring material ejected from its blue supergiant companion was observed

Happy birthday Lalla Ward!
Sarah Ward – this is her real name – was born on June 28, 1951 in London, England, daughter of the seventh Viscount Bangor. The name Lalla by which she’s known comes from her attempts to say her name when she was just a toddler. She’s famous in particular for playing the Time Lady Romana in Doctor Who

Michaelmas by Algis Budrys

The Green Millennium by Fritz Leiber
The novel “The Green Millennium” by Fritz Leiber was published for the first time in 1953. In this novel Phil Gish is an ordinary person who one day comes across a green cat. Because it seems to him that his presence makes him feel good he calls him Lucky but very soon the cat disappears. Gish starts looking for him but as if a green cat wasn’t strange enough in the apartment across the street he sees a famale faun.