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"Jam", the film I saw at BAFTA a couple of weeks back , is now available on the internet for you to enjoy: It's depressingly a...

The Relative Dimensions website has the first of a two-part interview with me - the second half will go up next week. ETA: Part two of the ...

Gratuitous pimpage: here's a nice place to stay in Eger, Hungary , where you could also explore the fine castle and volcanic baths. I ne...

There's now a trailer for my Blake's 7 CD , and my casting notes are blogged on the Blake's 7 website. Busy on some other stuff...

To the British Library last night for a “Late at the library” event. There was Victorian Values – a lively show by the Ministry of Burlesqu...

I'm now at the end of Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica , having not been entirely won over by the mini-series . Spoilers obviously follo...

Neal Stephenson's Anathem is a typically robust brick of a novel, 937 pages packed with action, maths and top facts. It was a Christmas...

What a splendid episode of Doctor Who . Will leave a little space for spoilers in case you have not seen it... [Incidentally, I have written...

To no less august a place than Kennington yesterday for a reading of “The Ride”, a fun new play by Andrew Cartmel . Blogging now and hooveri...

To a star-studded showing of the star-studded "Jam" last night, the short film written by my pal Lizzie Hopley and directo-produc...

1. The Dr is engaged in an exciting project in experimental archaeology. London's own Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is going to ...

For what might one day be a work thing, I asked m'colleague M to recommend Dirk Bogarde films from the early 60s. Am woefully ill-read i...

So, that holiday in Florida then, in which I learned many top facts about the history of the NASA space programme. You have been warned. Fir...

Just home from a lovely time showing off in Florida, and am now fighting through a deluge of emails before nap-time. Will report on my adven...

Observe Books have announced I've got a story in their forthcoming Panda Book of Horror , which will be out next month. Which is nice. O...

Watched the Battlestar Galactica mini-series in one sitting last night, and have the series to follow. Yes, I am several years behind. And...

This week I have mostly been feeling like the eponymous Mark of Mark and his Monocycle , the classic work by David McKee , which no one else...

To the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology last night for a sneaky peek at the "Framing the Archaeologist" exhibition. It's...

“'A fool always wants to shorten space and time; a wise man wants to lengthen both.' John Ruskin – who had never tried to walk to th...

Here's my talk at the Royal Observatory from Tuesday night, which seemed to go down okay. The use and abuse of science in Doctor Who Hel...