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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch

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What a delight to be back in the world of Rivers of London , two years after I read the novella October Man  and little more than that since...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #566

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There is quite a lot of me in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine : FIRST BASE sees clever Gav Rymill recreate the studio sets of another m...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Scourge blurb

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Doctor Who and the Scourge of the Cybermen , the six-hour audiobook written by me and read by Jon Culshaw, is out next month. Here's the...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes

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"This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it t...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Vortex 148

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Among the treats in the latest issue of Big Finish's free in-house magazine Vortex there is "Metal Strain", a feature on my f...
Sunday, June 06, 2021

Boy in the Tower, by Polly Ho-Yen

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My nine year-old son recommended this as an audiobook for a long drive, having been set it as a class reading book in both his school in sou...
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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 ...
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