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An ideal gift for someone into science and space is a magazine subscription, this way they can keep up to date with the latest geeky news. I would personally recommends BBC's Focus magazine and New Scientist magazine.
BBC Focus magazine is a British magazine that covers all aspects about science and technology, as well as regular celebrity features and interviews. It also features regular articles to correspond with the BBC television series. It is certainly the much cheaper option as it is issued monthly. You can chose between paying £16.00 direct debit every 6 months (giving you an annual saving of 32%) or paying for 12 months by credit card for £38.50 (but with this option you will only save 25%). Subscribing will also entitle you to free delivery for each magazine. And if you buy this magazine before the 31st December you will also earn your choice of a free gift; you can chose between the 'How To Grow A Planet' DVD or 'Why Does E=mc2?' plus 'The Quantum Universe' books by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. If your geeky boyfriend is also tech savvy (which I have no doubt he is), then the subscription also allows you free access to digital issues of the magazine through the iPad app. Just give them his email address when you subscribe and they will send him the details of how to register a digital account.
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New Scientist magazine reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture. New Scientist is the much dearer option at £143 annually, but you can manage your payments by breaking it down into quarterly direct debit payments of £35.75. This will give you an annual saving of 24%. Also, as it is a weekly magazine, it will seem like one huge gift, or you could think about it as 52 little gifts - this will earn you a great deal of girlfriend brownie points!
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A personal favourite gift of mine is a great little book called 'So you created a wormhole: The time travelers guide to time travel'. This book is hilarious! Humans from H. G. Wells to Albert Einstein to Bill & Ted have been fascinated by time travel, but in order to travel safely and effectively, newbie travelers need to know the dos and don’ts. Think of this as a handy little guide book of essential time traveling knowledge. This includes; choosing the right time machine, the complications of creating a time paradox and how to befriend a dinosaur and subsequently fight other dinosaurs with that dinosaur.
You can buy this book from Forbidden Plant.com for £9.99 (£7.99 and £2.00 postage and packing). I would highly recommend buying products from Forbidden Plant as they package their items extremely well. Or if you are lucky enough to have a Forbidden Plant locally, I would defiantly drop in. These shops are usually little treasure troves full of amazingly geeky goodness. Some stores include; London, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Liverpool, Newcastle and Southampton.
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If you happen to live with your boyfriend, or if he has a pad of his own, you could buy him this cool moon bowl from lazy oaf. Made from melamine and at 35mm round it would look great on any boy's coffee table, or why not buy him a plate hanger and have him mount it on his wall? You can have this quirky center piece for £26.99; £23.00 and £3.99 postage and packing.
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Or, if you really want to geek out his house, why not go the whole 9 yards with this outer space double duvet cover for only £10.97! It is even available in king size for just £12.97 - what a bargain! When you place an order with Tesco Direct, not only do you earn clubcard points, but you also have the option of collecting from your local Tesco store for free. Recently I discovered that you can also collect from your very local Tesco express stores. Our local store is at the end of our road, so you can imagine my joy when it came up as one of the store options - how convenient! The duvet set is machine washable and can be tumble dried.
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