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My former editor Justin died last weekend. His great friend Peter Anghelides has written movingly about him .  I knew Justin, first, for his...

The talk I gave on Doctor Who writers David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks for the York Festival of Ideas earlier this month is now up in full ...

Subtitled "Essays on Crafting Science Fiction", this is an anthology first published in 2023 comprising, in most cases, authors ta...

Dr Una McCormack recommended me this brilliant book on the craft of writing. The title is a pun, the idea being that a piece of writing — a ...

This relatively short, breezy guide to writing better screenplays is full of good, practical advice. I was keen to see what it had to say ab...

The Making of Doctor Who by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks — their names in that order — was published in paperback by Piccolo on 20 Apri...

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

Originally published on 19 August 1976, this is the first Doctor Who book issued from the new home of Wyndham Publications Ltd: 123 King St...

The eagle-eyed reader might spot the odd, occasional typo in this series of long, long posts about the 236 books written by Terrance Dicks ....