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This was research for something I'm working on at the moment. It's the book version of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures de...

A long time ago when I was not so broken and old, I made a point of finishing every book begun, enjoyable, insightful or not. These days,...

In January, I took the Lord of Chaos to see the Pixar film  Coco at the cinema. It held him transfixed, but I'd already given my hear...

The Time Ladies and Big Finish have announced a thrillingly thrilling short story competition for the Bernice Summerfield range . Th...

Bladerunner 2049 This is not a film designed to be watched on a small, square screen on a plane, the naked bits pixellated and the swearin...

I really enjoyed this rollicking thriller by the author of The Martian . Like that, it's full of practical problem-solving in space, ...

I'm afraid that this odd but acclaimed novel about a grieving father (namely, Abraham Lincoln) left me a bit cold. All sorts of thi...

I’ve had this extraordinary book on the stack of books by my bed for a while. It won the Clarke Award last year, and the Pulitzer Prize f...

Later this year there will be a thrilling range of releases to mark two decades of Bernice Summerfield's audio adventures - includin...

My new infographics book, Slayer Stats , marks 21 years of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer with all the graphics-based data a slave...

Last week, I ran a workshop for the Hastings Writers' Group on writing science fiction, my brief that this was a bunch of enthusiast...

It's British Science Week and tomorrow I'll be talking at the Bath Taps into Science festival on the scientific secrets of Doctor...

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...

Out now,  The Court Jester is the latest volume of The Wife in Space series by Neil & Sue Perryman, in which they watch all of Doctor...

"I, who was taught from the cradle to deny, deny and deny again - taught by the very Service that is seeking to drag a confession out...

This is a timely publication of two lectures by Mary Beard, one on "The Public Voice of Women" and the efforts to silence them,...

This book is a delight, a breezy yet wide-ranging history of humanity's efforts to leave Earth, plus what the near future might hold....

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

A Game Without Rules  (2017) continues the beguiling story begun in Geis - A Matter of Life and Death (2016), the extraordinary, beautiful ...

This life of SOE agent "Christine Granville" - born  Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek in Poland in 1908 - took a while to get in ...