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The clever Red Scharlach - who made my badger pirate icon - has made a whole bunch more Doctor Who icons to steal . I am especially pleased ...

I’ve seen a lot of blue sky in the small hours recently. On Thursday, I was on the 05.44 train into town to get to Watford by half seven. Th...

Went to see the new Star Trek this morning and golly it is good. Smart and exciting and often very funny, and I’ll avoid spoilers in what f...

It has been a weekend of day-trips to far-flung places, when I should have been writing a script. After work on Friday we ventured north to ...

YOU could win a copy of my The Slitheen Excursion in Digital Spy’s competition , which runs til noon on Sunday. They’ve also posted up a bre...

Hooray for the Internet and its fascinating contents. The paperback edition of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science includes an extraordinary new cha...

Those nice people at Titan Books are offering YOU a chance to win a copy of my forthcoming Primeval novel Fire and Water plus some Primeval ...

Simon's Holub has posted up his lovely, lovely artwork for my July Doctor Who audio, The Drowned World . Out this week is the Doctor Wh...

I have now been married for five years and one day. On Thursday, I followed the Dr to Brighton to see the Egyptian bits in the free Brighton...

“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 ...

I seem to keep saying this: it's all been a bit manic of late. Sort of finished a big thing as-yet unnannounced on Friday and sent it ro...

I am thrilled - thrilled! - to see the new issue of Doctor Who Adventures (#108, 26 March 2009). The cover boasts my space-pirate meerkats...

Here for the record is a picture of my new living room, showing the shelves built last month and the floor put in on Friday. Hooray to S. ou...

Tomorrow sees the neck-and-neck launching of seasons three of Robin Hood and Primeval . I’ve written forthcoming spin-off merchandise for b...

To the first night of New Boy at the Trafalgar Studios last night, starring Nicholas Hoult off of Skins and About a Boy . It’s co-produced ...

How exciting – readers of Unreality SF think the Prisoner’s Dilemma one of the best 10 tie-in stories of 2008-09. There’s now a vote for t...

The new issue of The DFC has some very sad news: it's closing in two issue's time. What a shame. As I blogged last year , it's ...

Bananas are good. They contain zinc. And can be made to look EXACTLY like penguins. Here's how: Step one. Take a banana, any banana. In ...

The splendid fellows at Doctor Who podcast Radio Free Skaro have posted up an MP3 interview with me , conducted at the Gallifrey convention ...

So what to to make of Watchmen ? I loved the comic in my teens (though not as much as I loved V For Vendetta ), and recall the bloke who wro...