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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Monday, July 26, 2021

The Tides of Time #47

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The Trinity term issue of The Tides of Time , fanzine of the Oxford Doctor Who society features an interview with me conducted by editor Jam...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #567

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine contains, among its many treasures, another "Sufficient Data" infographic by me and illustra...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Influencing the Doctor #51 and #52

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The latest episodes of the Influencing the Doctor podcast feature me being interrogated by host Ethan Gibson on my writing. We cover everyth...
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 ...
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