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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to forthcoming Easter TV special Legend of the Sea Devils , but there are a couple of bits ...

Will Parry runs away from home and then into another world, where he meets Lyra Silvertongue and seeks to help her. But soon they're ...

Astounding is extraordinary, a rich, incisive and constantly shocking history of the science-fiction magazine of the same name, and through...

Last summer, then big chief of Doctor Who , Steven Moffat, explained to me his inspiration for the most successful of his monsters, the We...

While researching some daftness for  Horrible Histories Magazine , I read up on Franciscan monk and philosopher Roger Bacon (c. 1214-129...

Listen to Robert Shearman read a new short story in a special podcast. Rob was the guest of the British Science Fiction Association in Sep...

Beyond the Wall – Writing a Path Through Palestine is a short, haunting account of a trip Bidisha made there last year. I read it in an a...

Thanks to lovely Abebooks , I'm now the proud owner of a battered paperback of Carl Sagan's Cosmos and a battered hardback (withou...

High Rise by JG Ballard is told from the point of view of three men living at different levels of a block going to war with itself. It'...

I've nicked this from a chap called Roo Reynolds , whose own blog I stalk. Here are the books I've finished this month: "The Sa...

The Dr and I have spent Christmas eating too much, drinking even more, seeing some chums and enjoying – for the Dr at least – a busman's...

Sir Arthur C Clarke, who died yesterday , is probably best remembered for getting his physics right. This is the bloke who, for a bit of a l...

Special agent Fox Mulder had a poster hanging up in his office at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It showed a classic “proof” of alien ...