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First published in 2014, this is a collection of eight longish short stories — each comprising more than 50 pages. It’s the first Aickman I’...

Gosh, this is good — and thrilling, disturbing and difficult to put down. Annie Bot is all told from the perspective of a robot owned by 34...

Ulysses Temper is a British soldier in Italy during the Second World War. There he befriends art historian Evelyn Skinner, and helps her res...

Samira and I were interviewed by Paul Simpson at Sci-fi Bulletin about our recent Radio 4 documentary, Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse .  Archive...

Our documentary, Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse , has made tonight's Pick of the Week on Radio 4, presented by Geoff Lloyd . Hooray! It'...

Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 5 March. Produced by me and brother Thomas, it’s presented by Samira Ah...

I'm a guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast , talking in detail with host Jeremy Philips about Ryan's Daughter (1970). I'm a...

On twitter a few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that Tristan de Vere Cole, director of 1968 Doctor Who story The Wheel in Space ,   was no...

Subtitled, "Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works", this is an insightful and often funny insider's account of the in...

The friend I borrowed this from got it for Christmas in 2016, and was 33 pages in when news arrived that Carrie Fisher had died. My frien...

This is a novel of yearning. Judith Earle is an only child, a teenager living a lonely life in a nice house in the Thames Valley. She rec...

I'm a guest on episode 9 of Paul Cornell's podcast, the Cornell Collective , recorded at the magnificent GallifreyOne convention ...

Those splendid fellows at Big Finish are having a sale this weekend: buy all nine hours of my sci-fi series Graceless for just £25 . AMA...

I bought the brother Hitchcock Truffaut for Christmas, a book-long series of conversations between the two directors. At one point they ...

On 2 November, I'll be at Doctor Who Day at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea , talking about the beginning of Doctor Who in 1963 and...

"By classical times the Theseus legend ... had so fabulous a garnish that it has sometimes been dismissed as pure fairy-tale, or, aft...

Episode 29: The Bride of Sacrifice First broadcast: 5.15 pm on Saturday, 6 June 1964 << back to 1964 The Doctor surprised in Th...

Yesterday, m'colleague Web of Evil presented me with two fine volumes purloined from a second-hand bookshop. The first was Doctor Who:...

The tenth James Bond novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) begins with Bond revisiting the scene of the first – the casino fro...