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It has taken months and been painfully more expensive than expected, but I now have a shed/office up and running, and my daughter no longer...

Last night I was again the guest of the Hastings Writers' Group to give feedback on and announce the winner of their science-fiction ...

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...