The Tenth Planet, by Gerry Davis, is the first story to feature one of Doctor Who’s deadliest enemies – the Cybermen. The story is in the year 1986, when the TARDIS takes Doctor and his companions, Ben and Polly, near a Snowcap base in the South Pole. The guards manning the base capture them on suspicious grounds. The base, commanded by General Cutler, was supervising the mission of Zeus IV spaceship which ran routine checks on the upper atmosphere of the Earth.
Some unusual readings on the instruments lead to the discovery of another planet, which appeared very close to Earth. Zeus IV experiences power losses, and the base start arranging to abort the mission. But while this happens, three robot shaped creatures land outside the base, kills the guards and disguises themselves in their fur coats to gain access to the base. Read More
Chetan Bhagat scores a perfect 10 with this book  a hilarious, rollicking account replete with witticisms and unforgettable one-liners.This book is not to help people who aspire to get into the IIT, or even help those who are already there to pass out successfully. But the story about this guy, Hari, and his two friends, who consider themselves the underdogs because they have five-point something GPAs (Grade Point Averages), and their adventures in the four years they spend at IIT. It is about their constant struggle to beat a system which judges everyone by their GPA, and which, they feel, suppresses the creativity of a person.
The name Gulliver brings two sets of beings into one’s mind – the dwarfs of Lilliput and the Giants of Brobdingnag. But that’s only part One and Two of the story of Gulliver’s Travels. Gulliver had been through more than that. He had been to places other than Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Part Three says about the flying island of Laputa where the greatest minds of the world are collected and they study nature and everything around them. And Part Four, is a socialist fantasy world of the Houyhnhnms (horses) who rule wisely and justly over the savage and detestable Yahoos (humans).
My appetite for comic books have taken me places… I have been carried to the middle of interplanetary battles with Green Lantern and Superman, to being a reporter detective exploring the Cigars of the Pharaoh with Tintin… and I met Asterix and Obelix in there somewhere… from then on, I’ve been a frequent visitor to the little Gaulish village many a times…
Sai lost her parents who left India to take part in the Soviet space programme and met an unfortunate death in a bus accident. The only relative she had was her grandfather, Jemubhai, a former judge who had totally kept himself away from the hassles of life in a house in the foothills of the Himalayas. Alone with his dog, Mutt, all the barriers that the sour old man had built up against the weight of bad memories of the past, was being broken down by Sai’s presence in the house.