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About once a month from 1991 until I left home, my grandfather would treat my family to dinner at the Golden House, a Chinese restaurant a s...

Semiosis  is, like Aliya Whiteley's The Loosening Skin , one of six contenders for the 2019 Clarke Award, to be announced this Wednes...

Illustration by EH Shepherd I've written a very short, unsettling story, "Crossing the Line" which you can read free onl...

I've written a new short film, Modern Man . Watch it, like it, share it with everyone you ever met - and use the hashtag #VMShortsvote....

Last night I finished a notebook I've kept since 29 December 2011 (when I was in Egypt ). I've kept notebooks since I was in my t...

AAAGH! from Doctor Who Adventures #267 - the very hungry Master Another silly AAAGH! from Doctor Who Adventures #267 and inspired by ...

Another AAAGH! by me, this from #232 of Doctor Who Adventures - published two days before broadcast of the new Doctor Who episode Let'...

Had a nice couple of days' escape from London before our building work starts in earnest. Went to Ely for the afternoon, mooched round ...

Another AAAGH! comic strip, this from issue #215 of Doctor Who Adventures , published the week after Easter. Written by me, art by Brian Wi...

Had lunch at the Westfield Byron Burger today with m'learned colleagues and chose the double Byron because I is a pig. Finished before ...

Mr and Mrs Brother-in-Law treated me to a trip to Jodrell Bank today, the whopping great radio-telescope which is a whole bucket of cool. I...

Have spent most of the last week sheltering indoors, stuffing myself full of food and booze. J. and J. put on a splendid spread for Christma...

In Reading, yesterday, there was the impressive sight of two geeks attempting a barbecue. I can do typing. I can do reaching things from she...

With the Dr away in the Darkest North at the moment – apparently teasing her Dad about his becoming a Writer – I made tea for a few chums la...