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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #565

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Out today, Doctor Who Magazine issue 565 is largely devoted to the series broadcast in 1987 and imminently due out on Blu-ray. Since that w...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Design for Doctor Who, by Piers D Britton

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This academic study of costume and production design in Doctor Who has been a stimulating read, full of connections and insights that are n...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Kindred, by Octavia E Butler

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"'There's worse things than being dead,' I had said." (p. 283) Prompted by a recent discussion on the radio of Octavia...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

On Countdown

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Excitingly (and surreally), I was mentioned on today's edition of TV quiz show Countdown . Some 15 minutes in, host Nick Hewer asks Sami...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine 564

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It's all rather in the shadow of horrifying revelations about Noel Clarke , but the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features two thing...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Writing Doctor Who

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The new Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is out today, devoted to the topic of writing Doctor Who . It's full of thrillingly detailed...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Stan Lee - How Marvel Changed the World, by Adrian Mackinder

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"Somehow, Stan always managed to present himself as a modest egomaniac - an art in itself." (p. 168) These words, from ex-Marvel w...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

The Relentless Moon, by Mary Robinette Kowal

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The third book in the Lady Astronaut series (after  The Calculating Stars  and  The Fated Sky ) is another triumph, and having struggled to ...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

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Piranesi chronicles his exploration of a "labyrinth" of halls full of statues-with-meaning, the place liable to epic floods and th...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

The Emperor's Feast, by Jonathan Clements

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About once a month from 1991 until I left home, my grandfather would treat my family to dinner at the Golden House, a Chinese restaurant a s...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Scourge of the Cybermen trailer

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The trailer for Doctor Who: Scourge of the Cybermen is now online, with Jon Culshaw reading from the six-hour audio novel I've written ...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #563

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The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine boasts an interview with Ninth Doctor actor Christopher Eccleston, and lots of other Ninth Doctor rel...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Cinema Limbo: Smoke (1995)

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The latest episode of film podcast Cinema Limbo is about  Smoke (1995) , a favourite film that I inflicted on host Jeremy Philips. It's ...
Friday, March 05, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #562

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The thrilling new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine features two things by me. First, in "Moonbase 3" Rhys Williams and ...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Tintin - The Complete Companion, by Michael Farr

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After I read all* of Tintin last year, a kind friend sent me this excellent, comprehensive companion, full of details about the writing of ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Doctor Who Chronicles: 1965

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I've just received my copy of  Doctor Who Chronicles: 1965  from the splendid lot that make Doctor Who Magazine . Among the delights to ...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Sherlock Holmes - The Great War

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I'm currently in the midst of writing Sherlock Holmes - The Great War , an original novel for Titan Books. More details soon but here...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #561

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Out today, the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to the novelisations of TV Doctor Who stories published in the 1970s and 1980s b...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Scourge of the Cybermen

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Feast your eyeballs on this glorious cover by Claudia Gironi for Doctor Who and the Scourge of the Cybermen , a six-hour original audio nov...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Masterful and the Switching

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Just received my copy of the Masterful box set - a sumptuous collection of eight CDs comprising the epic adventure   starring 10 incarnati...
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