Books by Stephen Webb

This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages.

Lawrence Ryan is Australia's very own Evel Knievel. Legend: A Childhood Dream is Lawrence's lively autobiography which traces his progress from outback Junee (NSW) to this country's number one stuntman. As he writes: "Was there always an inner stuntman lurking in my genes? I was three when I told my dad I wanted to be a stuntman. Teacher, police officer, truck driver - these seemed okay occupations for other kids to aspire to but I knew they were tame compared to my dream." TV personality Grant Denyer remarks in his foreword: "He's part superhero, part gentlemen, part dreamer, partly psychotic. But, far more importantly, he's always entertaining." Legend is indeed an entertaining read and generously illustrated with photographic evidence of Lawrence's astounding stunts.

From the ampersat and amerpsand, via smileys and runes to the ubiquitous presence of mathematical and other symbols in sciences and technology: both old and modern documents abound with many familiar as well as lesser known characters, symbols and other glyphs.