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In Part I  of this two-part epic, we looked at the way that this novelisation does — and doesn’t — follow on smoothly from the preceding adv...

Reading Bookish   and its brief, telling reference to a man who walks into the sea because someone has his letters prompted me to try this, ...

“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...

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’...

Gosh, this is good — and thrilling, disturbing and difficult to put down. Annie Bot is all told from the perspective of a robot owned by 34...

Ulysses Temper is a British soldier in Italy during the Second World War. There he befriends art historian Evelyn Skinner, and helps her res...

Samira and I were interviewed by Paul Simpson at Sci-fi Bulletin about our recent Radio 4 documentary, Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse .  Archive...

Our documentary, Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse , has made tonight's Pick of the Week on Radio 4, presented by Geoff Lloyd . Hooray! It'...

Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 5 March. Produced by me and brother Thomas, it’s presented by Samira Ah...

I'm a guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast , talking in detail with host Jeremy Philips about Ryan's Daughter (1970). I'm a...

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...

Subtitled, "Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works", this is an insightful and often funny insider's account of the in...

The friend I borrowed this from got it for Christmas in 2016, and was 33 pages in when news arrived that Carrie Fisher had died. My frien...