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Blimey. 2010 has been a bit of an old sod, all told. Having had next to no work for most of the summer, things suddenly got a bit manic in t...

And a very merry Christmas to you, too, Twitter .

Of no interest to anyone else I am sure, but yesterday I looked up at space through a telescope for the first time. My astronomy GCSE course...

Had lunch at the Westfield Byron Burger today with m'learned colleagues and chose the double Byron because I is a pig. Finished before ...

Graceless , the three CD sci-fi mini-series what I wrote, is out this month. The Big Finish website boasts full details and a trailer, and t...

High Rise by JG Ballard is told from the point of view of three men living at different levels of a block going to war with itself. It'...

I wrote this trail for the Petrie Museum of Ancient Egyptology , which has just had a spangly new makeover. Cat and gothic trails are also a...

A better result than last month. I read The Number Mysteries by Marcus du Sautoy in preparation for an interview for a job I then didn'...

A chum has asked how I came up with June, the one-off companion in Doctor Who and the Slitheen Excursion . Figured it might be of interest t...

"Pornography in Hosptials" by Ben Goldacre in today's Guardian . The Dr encouraged me to respond: "Fascinating article, t...

Suddenly I'm quite busy. A freelance gig is now going to run pretty much full-time til Christmas, and I've a number of commitments t...

YouTube now boasts two clips from Rode Trip , the documentary made by my brother/boss following two people riding across Australia on horses...

Was going to write something about book-burning , then remembered I already had: "We pass through Bebelplatz , the square where the Naz...

This is the Monument , built between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the Great Fire of London. Climb the 311 steps to the viewing platform – as...

Ah. Have been a bit busy on other things - research and job hunting and a new on-spec novel which is currently called "The Dream"....

The Sagas of the Icelanders is a 780-page brick of a book, a selection of the best sagas from the newly translated and spangly complete col...