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“A thirteen-course brain banquet” boasts the back cover of this 160-page anthology from 1970, comprising six short stories and seven essays ...

"There's always another way, even for you." The follow-up to Children of Time , first published in 2019,   is another epic, mi...

“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...

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 ...

This is a review of a comic science-fiction novel from 1968, sort of John Wyndham done as sitcom. Yet in poking fun at the mores and anxieti...

Responding to an alien distress call, the Doctor and Ruby arrive in Estonia a few days before the Battle of the Ice on 5 April 1242 .  ...

As with Craig Miller , I chatted to David Gerrold at the GallifreyOne convention last month and bought his book when I got home. The Trouble...

Kaaro can find things. He can read people's minds and switch into a sort of psychic internet thing - so long as he's not lathered hi...

This was the perfect accompaniment to my journey to London and back for the Nigel Kneale centenary , and not only because it fitted the driv...

I'm the new producer of the Doctor Who : Lost Stories range - and Tom Baker's boss, which has been a delight. My masters at Big Fin...

"Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea" is a new, festive science-fiction short story by me, to be featured in Bernice Summerfield:...

I'm a guest on a special episode of comedian Edy Hurst's podcast devoted to The War of the Worlds , nattering about the life of HG W...

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

The new issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine includes a feature I've co-written with Sophie Iles , a preview of the animated ver...

In 1896, Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate the disappearance of Thomas Kellway from a locked room with a window in the door,...

This wasn't what I expected. As a classic of science-fiction, I thought it would be engineer-heroes conquering the frontier and debat...

Subtitled "The Octopus and the evolution of intelligent life," this is an absorbing mix of marine biology and philosophy, delvi...