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Issue 28 of Post Öykü , published in May but I only just found out, includes my short story "The Artficial Bees" as "Yapa...

A month ago, while I was busy preparing a talk on utopia and dystopia for the Hastings Writers Group, Francis Wheen tweeted about  Agent ...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out in shops tomorrow. I've written the preview of the Season 23 Blu-ray box set, comprising...

Subtitled "A comedians' take on what makes us human", this is an intelligent ramble through the psychology of stand-up, and...

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

I have a story in Doctor Who: The Target Storybook , a new anthology to be published in October with an amazing cover by Anthony Dry. The...

This special edition of Doctor Who Magazine covers the Target novelisations and their proustian delights, and is in shops now. It's ...

Fifteen years ago today, on the hot, sunny morning of Saturday, 7 August 2004, I followed a print-out from Streetmap round the back of th...

This is a comprehensive study of the bits of a book that surround the main text - the "paratext" of (to list them): introductio...

Driving up to Blackpool to collect the wife and children this week, I listened to the audiobook of Doctor Who: The Invasion , a book I lo...

I've finally caught up with the amazing HBO/Sky mini-series Chernobyl , a gruelling experience because the horror is so perfectly exe...

This glorious, funny, wise and sad novel had me utterly enthralled. It's the tale of two former Suffragettes in the late 1920s, the p...

"Four Doctors... Forty-three episodes... One groundbreaking director". The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts hidden trea...

This beautifully packaged anthology summarises 11 Christmas lectures from the Royal Institution covering aspects of natural history. The ...

The 1 August issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes "Cryin', talkin', sleepin', walkin living dolls&quo...

A huge, confused ape wrestles with King Kong. Reader, that ape is me... The Cinema Limbo podcast re-evaluates old films, and host Jerem...

In the chaos of war-torn Iraq, even claiming the body of dead loved one is difficult. Hadi, a junk dealer, collects scraps of different c...

Semiosis  is, like Aliya Whiteley's The Loosening Skin , one of six contenders for the 2019 Clarke Award, to be announced this Wednes...

This Saturday morning, Radio 4 Extra are repeating Floating in Space - a compendium of space-related programming presented by Samira Ahm...

My friend Jonny's book on 1964 Doctor Who  story The Dalek Invasion of Earth  is excellent - and not only because its reference to my...