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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Friday, September 28, 2018

Dark Tales, by Shirley Jackson

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I've read loads since completing Space Odyssey - chapters of various mates' works in progress and all sorts of material for work, ...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Big Issue #1326

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Out today, issue 1326 of the Big Issue features an exclusive interview with Jodie Whittaker about being the new Doctor Who . Lurking alon...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Doctor Who Magazine #530

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Doctor Who Magazine #530 is now available in shops and online. It includes my interview with musician Christian Erickson about how 1984 ...
Thursday, September 06, 2018

John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girls, reprise

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At 9.15 pm tonight, Radio 3 are repeating a documentary presented by Samira Ahmed and which I produced, John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girl...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Two Eleventh Doctor things

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Michael Pickwoad I was very sad to hear of the death of Michael Pickwoad,  Doctor Who 's brilliant production designer between 2010...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Space Odyssey, by Michael Benson

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A couple of years ago, I praised a jaw-dropping exhibition of images of the Solar System which were on temporary display at the Natural H...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Dickens and the dinosaurs

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The online new issue of medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry (vol 5, iss 8, August 2018) features "Dickens and the dinosaurs" ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Doctor Who Figurine Collection

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I've been working for a while on the partwork  Doctor Who Figurine Collection , my job to write 1,200 words on the costumes of particu...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

Journey up the Nile, the Egyptian Diary of Marianne Brocklehurst

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Last week, I visited the West Park Museum in Macclesfield as research for my forthcoming Radio 3 documentary, “Victorian Queens of Ancient...
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

The World of Doctor Who

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In shops now, The World of Doctor Who is the latest - and 50th - special edition of Doctor Who Magazine , and examines the past, present...
Saturday, August 04, 2018

The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher

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The friend I borrowed this from got it for Christmas in 2016, and was 33 pages in when news arrived that Carrie Fisher had died. My frien...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Illuminae, by Amie Kaufmann & Jay Kristoff

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This brilliant novel had me hooked from its first pages - in which a school is attacked by a huge spaceship. In the heart of the maelstro...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived

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BBC Books have announced an exciting new volume,  Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived , to be published in September. Written by Christel D...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Comics bought from South London Comic & Zine Fair

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As well as handing out copies of our new Bibbly-Bob comic , I bought a bunch of things from the stalls at last weekend's South London C...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Bibbly-Bob returns

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After its exclusive media launch at the  South London Comic & Zine Fair this afternoon, here is the new Bibbly-Bob the Seal comic ...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor

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I really enjoyed this 90-page science-fiction novella about a girl who runs away from home to go to space university, when her ship is at...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

Eleventh Doctor Chronicles cover

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Our next month is Doctor Who - The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles , with this tremendous cover by Tom Webster: I've written one of th...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla

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This book of 21 essays is, in the words of the editor's note, "a document of what it means to be a person of colour now." ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Revisiting Sunnydale: a Buffy podcast

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I was the guest / breakfast of Kahmeela and Marcella on episode 77 of the Revisiting Sunnydale podcast , for a lively natter about my bo...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Apollo, by Fitch, Baker and Collins

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This new graphic novel about the Apollo 11 Moon landing is illustrated by Mike Collins who a) shares his name with the Command Module pi...
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