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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Cinema Limbo: Highlander II

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I'm again a guest on the Cinema Limbo podcast, in which Jeremy Phillips looks anew at neglected old films. This time, he inflicted on me...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

FREE - Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea

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That splendid lot at Big Finish have a special Christmas present for you all - a free download of Dame Lisa Bowerman reading my new short st...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Happy Times and Places

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Waaah! I'm Toby Hadoke's guest on the Happy Times and Places podcast this week. At my bidding, Toby watches / listens to the 1967  ...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Doctor Who Magazine 559

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is full of festive treats. Rhys Williams, Gavin Rymill and I have attempted to recreate the studio se...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

World-Building: How Science Sculpts Science Fiction

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It me Last week, I was on an online panel organised by IPAC and and the Keck Institute for Space Studies, discussing the ways that science-f...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Doctor Who Magazine 558

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine includes my feature on the role of David Whitaker in developing early Dalek mythology and helping to m...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

Dad

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Yesterday, we buried my father.  It has been a fraught week, trying to anticipate changes to lockdown rules relating to funerals - whether w...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

Bookshop

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If you are so minded, I've created a Bookshop list of things I've written .  Bookshop.org, which launched int the UK this morning, i...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea

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"Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea" is a new, festive science-fiction short story by me, to be featured in Bernice Summerfield:...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Doctor Who Magazine 557

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is full of excitements old and new, from interviews with the cast and crew of 1964's Marco Polo to...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

Threading the Labyrinth, by Tiffani Angus

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Toni Hammond is in her office in New Mexico when she's called by a lawyer in England and told she's inherited an estate. Two weeks l...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

DWM special on production design

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The latest special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to production design . Among the delights are some things by me: Dr Who and the...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Wicked Sisters cover

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Big Finish have put up Tom Newsom's amazing cover art for Doctor Who - Wicked Sisters , the trilogy of audio stories I've written th...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Edy Hurst's War of the Worlds

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I'm a guest on a special episode of comedian Edy Hurst's podcast devoted to The War of the Worlds , nattering about the life of HG W...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Cinema Limbo: Ryan's Daughter

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I'm a guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast , talking in detail with host Jeremy Philips about Ryan's Daughter (1970). I'm a...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Doctor Who Magazine 556

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features a cardboard TARDIS set to build, a detailed look at 1964 story Marco Polo  and an exhaustive ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

V for Victory, by Lissa Evans

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Entirely selfishly, I bought this for the Dr's birthday so that I could read it. It's the third in a trilogy, after Crooked Heart a...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Where Shall We Run To?, by Alan Garner

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My brother got me this as house-warming present. What feels an age ago but was really at New Year, he and I tramped bits of Alderley Edge de...
Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Vortex 139

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The new issue of Big Finish house magazine Vortex includes me yakking about two things I've written that are out next month.  Lesser Ev...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Haunting north

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The removals people said they'd be here between 8 and 8.30 this morning but arrived just after 7.30 while I was still drinking tea in be...
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