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After my post on Kingdom Come , a shrewd friend recommended me Alex Ross's earlier work, Marvels , originally published as a four-par...

On twitter a few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that Tristan de Vere Cole, director of 1968 Doctor Who story The Wheel in Space ,   was no...

I've just rewatched An Unearthly Child , the very first episode of Doctor Who , and noticed something I don't think I've notice...

The June issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay on David Storey's play Home . You need to pay to read the w...

This book accompanying Radio 4's science panel show The Infinite Monkey Cage is largely a collection of debates addressed on that pro...

I'm struggling a bit with reading at the moment - one day last week I started four different books and couldn't hold my concentra...

This is the third of 12 episodes of Star Trek: the Next Generation recommended to me. First there was 1.13 Datalore , then 2.9 The Measure...

In 2012, I wrote this trailer for Matt Smith, advertising Doctor Who on Turkish televisions CNBC-e: At the time, I was freelancing a...

This thrilling, 12-part comic is a journey through a High Fantasy landscape sometime after a terrible war. The surviving people and creat...

Amma's new play is opening at the National Theatre; she's torn about being part of the establishment after years of railing again...

This is the second of 12 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation recommended to me. The first one was 1.13 Datalore . We begin 2.9 ...

The super new issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out now, and features former show runners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat...

I enjoyed the recent first series of Star Trek: Picard but was very aware of missing the references as I've not seen all of Star Trek:...

After the smart, brilliant, thrilling The Calculating Stars , this second novel in the Lady Astronaut series is just as good - thrilling,...

I've submitted a review of this for publication elsewhere, but Professor Roger Luckhurst (who I know) has produced a fascinating histor...

Out in November, Wicked Sisters is a trilogy of Doctor Who stories in which the Fifth Doctor and Leela must destroy two powerful beings ...