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I wonder if Archimedes got distracted easily. He invented the water screw and the laser gun , and also sussed out how to measure the volume ...

M'colleagues at Big Finish inform me that the Stephen Gately song "Children of Tomorrow" is now available on iTunes for 79p. ...

Went with the Dr last night to see St Joan at the National . Met m’colleague R. outside just beforehand, who was queuing to see a circus of ...

The younger, slimmer, beardier brother has youtubed the wee movie he made as his final project on South Bank University 's special effec...

The deluge continues, and there are mad pictures of Reading , with the cinema I used to go to and shops where I'd buy milk now under fe...

Stayed up until half two this morning to see off Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , which the Doctor read all of on Saturday (due to the...

At a little after noon the sky above Trafalgar Square is low and black and doomsday. A torrent of water heaves thick over the shoes of those...

The Guardian is carrying a story today about the author and the Austen plot that exposed publishers' pride and prejudice . Basically, Da...

We have been visited. First on Monday, J. arrived from Bath (and more usually the USA). She had not seen our flat before, nor our William Mo...

Couldn’t be bothered to think of a birthday present for Codename Moose, so took him and Mrs Codename to see the new Harry Potter . Scary, fu...

Some folks have asked eagerly – and not a little disturbingly – for details of the blood-dashed events of Wednesday. And I am reminded of Er...

Mary and the Giant is one of a small number of non-sf books by sci-fi freak-boy Philip K Dick (author of the cray-zee tales that became Bla...

O. gets cross if I don't blog too often, and I also find it useful to know where I have been. So: On Saturday the Dr took me to Bristol ...

My old man’s a doctor, he wears a doctor’s hat. Well, he’s retired now. And it wasn’t really a hat so much as a head mirror. Which is, as ev...

The Internet had caught word that I am giving up my crown as Handsome King of Benny. Eddie Robson had actually been in charge since Sunday,...

Some years ago, I wrote my (not very good) MA dissertation about science-fiction being more fiction than science. Yes, you might get a wheez...

Finished and delivered the Inside Story of Benny at a little before 10 pm last night, having not exactly had a whole load of sleep or shavi...

We race towards the finish line on the Benny Inside Story , though I am beginning to feel a little like Peter Davison in Castrovalva episode...

The BBC's official Doctor Who website has announced the winner of our short story competition . Some other exciting news in there too.

After a great weekend's cutting and pasting - plus a few desperate fact-checking calls - the Inside Story of Bernice Summerfield curren...