“And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”
The Golden Journey to Samarkand, James Elroy Flecker
Sooner or later we will see a movie that is based on or at least inspired by an Alastair Reynolds novel, and it is rather remarkable no filmmaker has picked up one of his stories yet. Though most of them are heavy Science Fiction with all the bells and whistles, they wouldn’t necessarily need a huge budget to be realised. What they would need however is a writer and director with an ingenious imagination and the willingness to let go of simple space gimmickery and gadget clichés. Keep reading
I have rebooted my blog and as you can see, it's still a little under construction. It will be back in shape soon though... The Jonahh Blog is going to be about things I feel are interesting, remarkable or extraordinary (more 
Escaping Doomsday
Hawking’s message is simple. We have to leave Earth. Why? Global warming, excess of population, dwindling resources, asteroids, a nuclear disaster and other extinction level events. The emergency exit leads to other planets, Mars maybe, or further out. We will not be able to save everybody but in the end, so for the advocates of the ultimate exodus, it’s about the survival of the human species, not the individual being. Keep reading »