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I've just received my copy of this handsome new book, to which I contributed an essay on the 1975 Doctor Who story Planet of Evil and wh...

I've met Craig Miller briefly a couple of times at the GallifreyOne convention in Los Angeles but this is the first year I got to speak ...

This remarkable book has long been out of print and copies sell for silly money, but it's well were tracking down. Alan Arnold was the p...

A few months after reading The Tombs of Atuan , I'm back in Earthsea for a third instalment. It's been "seventeen years, or ...

After the success of The Book of Dust , we tried Audible's version of Northern Lights for some long journeys - and were enraptured. ...

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...

You can read my review of the Star Wars Identities exhibition for the Lancet Psychiatry . And here are some pictures I took as I nosed my w...

Big Finish have announced a new Doctor Who audio adventure written by me , due out later this year. It features the Second Doctor. In The...

I'm one of the writers of I Love That Minifigure , a book published this month and devoted to LEGO characters old and new. Researchin...

This morning I was wearing my dump hat. The binmen declined to take our rubbish last week 'cos there was a former shower cubicle stacked...

Another review for Vector , this the full version of one published in #260 in August. Wiffle Lever to Full by Bob Fischer Reviewed by Simon ...

“I’ve never seen Star Wars” is fascinating. Originally on Radio 4 and now on the telly, each episode sees Marcus Brigstocke get some celeb ...

Merely 12 years late, I’ve read Garry Jenkins’ book on the making of the first three Star Wars films . (A lifetime ago at a Doctor Who conve...

Here are some things I've been sent in the last few days. The Dr sends this Gigapan of Obama inaugaration , where you can zoom almost ri...

To the Clarke Awards last night in London’s glamorous West End; shoehorned into the underground bar in the Apollo cinema on Lower Regent St...