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I've had a busy couple of weeks chasing about, and need to write up notes on various things read. Yesterday, I was at Riverside Studios ...

Who are the leading characters in the original Star Trek ? The front cover of this breezy paperback adaptation of seven early TV adventures ...

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...