Among the treats, there's me on the writing of my 2007 Doctor Who novel The Pirate Loop.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
TARDIS 17.2
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Cinema Limbo: Highlander II
We've previously discussed Ryan's Daughter and the 1976 version of King Kong.
And here's me in more positive form on some of amazing non-Bond films starring Sean Connery.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
FREE - Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea
Blurb as follows:
'It will, I admit, be something of a challenge. But you thrive on challenges. And you have experience in communing with psychic populations.'
'So have you, Brax.'
'A little, yes. Bernice, this is important. And very regrettably, I don't fit the suit.'
Deep under the sea, Nessa, Freng and Strong are trying very hard to be nice. Because if they are naughty, then Santa won’t come and give them presents. And they do want presents very much. But what does Santa really want from them? And what does being nice *really* involve..?
This story comes from Bernice Summerfield: The Christmas Collection, and is offered free for a limited time only, December 2020.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Happy Times and Places
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Waaah! |
You may like to now that I wrote a book about The Evil of the Daleks, and we recreated the sets of episode 1 for Doctor Who Magazine's recent production design special.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Doctor Who Magazine 559
The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is full of festive treats. Rhys Williams, Gavin Rymill and I have attempted to recreate the studio sets of missing 1965 Christmas special The Feast of Steven by exhaustively picking over photographs and production paperwork, and interviewing production assistant Michael E Briant and fans Jeremy Bentham, Ian McLachlan and Marc Platt who watched it go out. Some archive interviews and Ian Levine's diaries also came into play. It has been quite the endeavour...
(Inevitably, the day the issue is released, a new photograph turns up with some additional clues, including traces of fake snow. But anyway...)
There's also the second part of my feature on David Whitaker's contributions to the early history of the Daleks.
Saturday, November 21, 2020
World-Building: How Science Sculpts Science Fiction
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It me |
The time difference meant that the panel started at 1 am for me - so, rather fittingly, I was calling in from the future.
Thanks to Dr. Jessie Christiansen for inviting me and the expert team who put it all together.
Friday, November 13, 2020
Doctor Who Magazine 558
The article coincides with a beautiful new edition of the Dalek comic strips from the mid-1960s that Whitaker probably wrote most of, and the brand new Daleks! animated series that takes many of its cues from that strip.