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“The funny thing is that getting the morning-after pill the first day of a zombie apocalypse is really no easier or harder than on a previou...

My clever colleagues Graham and Jack Kibble-White and Stuart Manning have produced a lovely supplement to last year's Adventures in Type...

With a long old drive in the company of the young Lord of Chaos, I choose an audiobook to match the expected duration (and was only five min...

“How can we trap them?” (p. 589) Doctor Avrana Kern begins an ambitious scientific study. From her spaceship the Brin 2, she launches two ve...

Professor Clement Darrelhyde spends his days at London Zoo, singing opera by Mozart to one of the enclosures. Despite this encouragement, Pe...

The 2025 yearbook from Doctor Who Magazine is now out, featuring a couple of things typed by me. Pages 28 and 29 relive the experience, in ...

After so enjoying Margot Bennett’s 1952 crime novel The Widow of Bath , I plunged into her next novel, a thriller first published in 1953. I...

I had a lovely day out on Saturday at the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped event(s), where we got to see an assortment of old telly that had bee...

I spoke to Kenny Smith for his Power of 3 podcast about my new book, Doctor Who: The Time-Travelling Almanac , which would of course make th...

The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out now, boasting a preview of the forthcoming Christmas special and the colour versio...

It is 10 years today since the death of our eldest daughter, Emily Maud, aged just eight days' old. I blogged about what happened  that ...

The blurb for this British Library Crime Classics edition of a novel first published in 1952 quotes praise from Julian Symons in his landmar...

The fifth instalment in the Slow Horses series is another involving and fun thriller, the established characters joined by a host of new, we...

Out today, this massive and comprehensive 224-page bookazine  from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine  is full of everything you could possib...

In the year 3392, an automated grading machine decides that seven year-old Grame is fit to be no more than a "mechanical repetitive wor...

I posted last year a bunch of interviews I conducted for technology news site Infotec . Since then, I've done a load more for Infotec an...

“In the early spring of nineteen sixty-three, there was a rumour — unconfirmed and a little scandalous — that George Smiley might almost be ...

The latest episodes of Doctor Who podcast Something Who compare 1975 story The Ark in Space with 2010 episode The Beast Below . I thought I ...

George Markstein (1926  —  but perhaps 1929  —  to 1987) was a journalist and writer, probably best known as script editor of the first 13 e...