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Out in all good DVD shops now is the 1971 Doctor Who story The Mutants , which features another documentary by me and the brother. Here is a...

Space school today was on identifying constellations, and I've drawn spidery diagrams of such things as Boote, Canis Major and the the b...

Another old review for Vortex, this one from January 2010. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, by Jesse Bullington Hegel and Manfried Gr...

"Your maths is correct, but your physics is abominable," said Albert Einstein (in French) of a 1927 paper by a Catholic priest. A...

Here's a book review of Johannes Cabal - the Necromancer by Jonathan L Howard , which I wrote for Vector in the summer of 2009 and neve...

Spent a long weekend in Thessaloniki (also known as Salonica) in northern Greece with the Dr and my parents. Traipsed through a fair few mus...

Those fine fellows at BBC Worldwide / 2|entertain have put a whole load of Doctor Who clips up on YouTube, including a snippet of a document...

I enthused about volume one of Running Through Corridors by my chums Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke the other day. One thing I didn’t ment...

Catching up on the books of 2010. Goldfinger deserves a post of it's own sometime - and I certainly made loads of notes. But blimey, it...

Blimey. 2010 has been a bit of an old sod, all told. Having had next to no work for most of the summer, things suddenly got a bit manic in t...

And a very merry Christmas to you, too, Twitter .

Of no interest to anyone else I am sure, but yesterday I looked up at space through a telescope for the first time. My astronomy GCSE course...

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

Graceless , the three CD sci-fi mini-series what I wrote, is out this month. The Big Finish website boasts full details and a trailer, and t...

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 wrote this trail for the Petrie Museum of Ancient Egyptology , which has just had a spangly new makeover. Cat and gothic trails are also a...