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This is an odd, beguiling time-travel romance first staged in 1926, then later adapted for radio, TV and two films. John L Balderston chief...

The new issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out in shops now, with lots of information about the TV series starting next month. I...

I had an amazing time at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles this weekend. What a buzz! But also I didn't sleep at all on the jo...

Next month, I'll be at the enormous Doctor Who convention Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, where the headline guests include Sir Derek Jac...

Watching the glorious  The Daleks in Colour  last night, I was especially struck by the bleakness of the story and world, a tale of nuclear ...

On Saturday, I spoke to Steven and Chris from Radio Free Skaro about my research into the life of David Whitaker . I'd just given my tal...

I've had a brilliant long weekend in Los Angeles as a guest at the Gallifrey One convention, catching up with lots of old pals, meeting ...

"'There's worse things than being dead,' I had said." (p. 283) Prompted by a recent discussion on the radio of Octavia...

"Somehow, Stan always managed to present himself as a modest egomaniac - an art in itself." (p. 168) These words, from ex-Marvel w...

The third book in the Lady Astronaut series (after  The Calculating Stars  and  The Fated Sky ) is another triumph, and having struggled to ...

The latest episode of film podcast Cinema Limbo is about  Smoke (1995) , a favourite film that I inflicted on host Jeremy Philips. It's ...

It me Last week, I was on an online panel organised by IPAC and and the Keck Institute for Space Studies, discussing the ways that science-f...

I’m struggling a bit with prose for grown-ups, so over the last month worked my way through The Adventures of Tintin , an eight-volume box-s...

After my post on Kingdom Come , a shrewd friend recommended me Alex Ross's earlier work, Marvels , originally published as a four-par...

This wasn't what I expected. As a classic of science-fiction, I thought it would be engineer-heroes conquering the frontier and debat...

The new issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes a review by me: " Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee is the story of t...

Helen Lewis has written a very good overview in The Atlantic  of Samira Ahmed's case against the BBC over pay discrimination . It inclu...

The new issue of medical journal Lancet Psychiatry features my essay, "There's someone in my head but it's not me," on ...