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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Doctor Who and the very Hungry Snake

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Out in shops today is Doctor Who Adventures #363, which features another daft comic strip by me - "The Very Hungry Snake". ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

"That's a typical piece of fan nonsense..."

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In shops now - The Essential Doctor Who: Master . Includes my interviews with Terrance Dicks, Richard Franklin and Katy Manning. I asked...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Irregularity signing, Forbidden Planet this Saturday

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JOIN JURASSIC LONDON AT FORBIDDEN PLANET FOR THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY – taking place the London Megastore on ...
Monday, March 02, 2015

Bananas

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The new issue of Doctor Who Adventures  features a four-page comic strip written by me. In "Five A Day", the 12th Doctor and Clar...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Four non-fiction books

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"The people interested in the history of comic books are not the same as the people interested in the history of the polygraph. (And ...
Monday, February 02, 2015

Modern Man at the BFI

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Modern Man , the short film I wrote , will play at the BFI on 21 February as part of the 8th BFI Future Film Festival . It's included...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Sherlock Holmes and immortality

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You can read my piece for the Lancet Psychiatry on the Museum of London's Sherlock Holmes exhibition (running until 12 April), which r...
Friday, December 19, 2014

The Couch on which John Hunter Died

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The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London is a fascinating place full of dead things in jars. The surgeon John Hunte...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 2015

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Out now is the Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 2015 , a sumptuous celebration of all this year's Doctor Who. It includes some things I d...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Doctors Who and all their friends

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I am in love with this magnificent effort by the amazing Red Scharlach : As Red explains: I set myself a few ground rules: canon Doct...
Monday, December 08, 2014

The Box of Delights and dreams of Christmas

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I've written another piece for the Lancet Psychiatry , this time on The Box of Delights and other stories about dreams . Having lo...
Sunday, December 07, 2014

Oliver Cromwell's Fundamentalist Queen

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The Fundamentalist Queen , a Radio 3 documentary I've produced, is broadcast tonight at 6.45 pm, and will thereafter be available on ...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Briefly, we had a daughter

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Early this morning, our eight day-old daughter died, peacefully and calmly, with me and the Dr holding on to her. What follows is mostly fo...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Three magazines

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In shops this week are three magazines what I did some writing for. 'Oliver Cromwell's forgotten queen' says the top of BBC...
Thursday, October 09, 2014

Doctor Who and the space owls

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The super new issue of Doctor Who Adventures boasts previews of forthcoming episodes Mummy on the Orient Express  and Flatline , reveals al...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Modern Man - Best Comedy Short at Isle of Man!

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As director Seb Solberg reports, Modern Man  (a short film I wrote) won Best Comedy Short at the Isle of Man Film Festival this weekend. ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The sleeper must awaken: inside the mind of Dune

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I've written an essay on Dune for the new issue of the Lancet Psychiatry , which you can read in full online. Further reading: ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Mary Queen of Scot's skull watch?

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I'm having a lovely time working on Horrible Histories magazine at the moment, writing poo jokes and investigating stupid deaths. Tod...
Saturday, August 02, 2014

Ten years since Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart

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Big Finish are celebrating 15 years of making Doctor Who stories on CD, and asked me to write something about the UNIT spin-off series fro...
Friday, August 01, 2014

Nine Worlds and Worldcon

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Next week I'll be at the mahoosive science-fiction convention, Nine Worlds . The week after I'll be at the even more humungous Lonc...
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