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I am thrilled - thrilled! - to see the new issue of Doctor Who Adventures (#108, 26 March 2009). The cover boasts my space-pirate meerkats...

Here for the record is a picture of my new living room, showing the shelves built last month and the floor put in on Friday. Hooray to S. ou...

Tomorrow sees the neck-and-neck launching of seasons three of Robin Hood and Primeval . I’ve written forthcoming spin-off merchandise for b...

To the first night of New Boy at the Trafalgar Studios last night, starring Nicholas Hoult off of Skins and About a Boy . It’s co-produced ...

How exciting – readers of Unreality SF think the Prisoner’s Dilemma one of the best 10 tie-in stories of 2008-09. There’s now a vote for t...

The new issue of The DFC has some very sad news: it's closing in two issue's time. What a shame. As I blogged last year , it's ...

Bananas are good. They contain zinc. And can be made to look EXACTLY like penguins. Here's how: Step one. Take a banana, any banana. In ...

The splendid fellows at Doctor Who podcast Radio Free Skaro have posted up an MP3 interview with me , conducted at the Gallifrey convention ...

So what to to make of Watchmen ? I loved the comic in my teens (though not as much as I loved V For Vendetta ), and recall the bloke who wro...

All over London there are posters for incredible India , exhorting you to "dance with the locals." Did we learn nothing from Siegf...

Merely 12 years late, I’ve read Garry Jenkins’ book on the making of the first three Star Wars films . (A lifetime ago at a Doctor Who conve...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine announces I've written "The Drowned World" for release in July 2009. It will star Jean M...

Arrived in Palma on Sunday evening, guests at the Mallorca Marriott Son Antem Golf Resort and Spa . They rang up a few months ago on the bas...

Inspired by Peter , I've shunted the "Stuff written" section from the right-hand navigation of this blog to a blog of its own ...

Ooh, I’ve known Nimbos for 10 years. There should be a celebration. But he’ll have to settle for a blog post instead. Nimbos and I both wor...

Fascinated by this news story about the oldest words in English . It’s one avenue of research by Reading University’s evolutionary biology g...

My chum Peter Anghelides is newly blogging, and today has a post about Twitter . I don’t get Twitter. At least, I don’t get what it would d...

Oh the joyous irony. While I was watching Toby’s lepidopterrific show last weekend in America, moths were busy eating my living room. We’d ...

Here are some things I've been sent in the last few days. The Dr sends this Gigapan of Obama inaugaration , where you can zoom almost ri...

Gallifrey was exhausting and brilliant and silly. Saw a whole bundle of old chums and made a great glutch of new ones. Flogged product and ...