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Out today, The Story of the Solar System - A Visual Journey , is a sumptuous big book of space infographics written by Dr Maggie Aderin-Poco...

This is the last of the five Garry Halliday novelisations, published in 1965. That was three years after the last new episode of the TV seri...

This is great fun - a Rivers of London novella set in New York in the Jazz Age, narrated by the woosterish Augustus Berrycloth-Young. Gussi...

Someone is meddling with time. That means that when an Aztec warrior ventures into a long abandoned Exxilon spaceship, he isn't instant...

Prompted by Richard Flanagan's Question 7 , I sought out this "science-fiction" anthology by the Hungarian physicist Leo Szila...

How do you bring an audience up to speed on the story so far? I posted in April that the surviving episode of children's adventure seria...

In 1967, BBC Two broadcast a 13-episode anthology of adaptations of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. The series was variously known ...

The new issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out today. My regular Script to Screen feature (pp. 26-30) this time covers the slug-...

I'm ploughing on with my  episode guide to the BBC children's serial Garry Halliday (1959-62) , and ahead of an entry there on the f...

By fun coincidence, I received a copy of this book - recommended to me by various friends since publication last year - two days after happe...

Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North , which was in part based on his father's ...

I've just received my copy of this handsome new book, to which I contributed an essay on the 1975 Doctor Who story Planet of Evil and wh...

I've posted the first two entries in what I hope will be an exhaustive guide to Garry Halliday , a BBC serial about the adventures of an...

River Cartwright is a nepo baby in MI5, his grandfather a retired top spook. But River cocks up a big operation and, in disgrace, is assigne...

Last night, I finished reading this to Lady Vader, having read it to the Lord of Chaos about five years ago and having had it read to me by ...

First published in 2014, this is a collection of eight longish short stories — each comprising more than 50 pages. It’s the first Aickman I’...

You can now download for free the four-page postscript to my biography of David Whitaker , detailing some of the things I've learned sin...