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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Saturday, October 16, 2021

Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Klara and the Sun  reminded me chiefly of the  Isaac Asimov story,  Reason , which so beguiled me as a child. Klara is an AF - or "arti...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #570

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine has lots on the imminent new TV series with lots of exclusive access to cast and crew. There's als...
Monday, October 04, 2021

Big Sky, by Kate Atkinson

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I've been gadding about this week, braving the petrol crisis to venture to Cambridge and Liverpool, accompanied on the road by Jason Isa...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

The Dalek Factor

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Out on Blu-ray and DVD this week is the new animation recreating  The Evil of the Daleks , a seven-episode  Doctor Who story from 1967 of wh...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #569

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The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine includes two things by me. First, the ingenious Gavin Rymill and Rhys Williams have reconstructed in...
Friday, September 10, 2021

I’m Just the Guy Who Says Action, by Alvin Rakoff

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At the end of this fascinating, moving memoir, the TV and film director Alvin Rakoff recalls a final conversation with his dying wife, the a...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell

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The winner of the 2020 Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel of the year is a sprawling epic, charting the lives of multiple generati...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Small Change for Stuart, by Lissa Evans

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Our holiday in north Wales has been enlivened by this brilliant book, written (and, on Audible, read) by Lissa Evans . Stuart is a small-for...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Doctor Who Magazine #568

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The new issue of  Doctor Who Magazine is mainly concerned with the departures of current Doctor, Jodie Whitaker, and her head writer, Chris...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson

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The fourth Jackson Brodie novel is another melancholy tale exploring the long shadows cast by murder, grief and loss. There are several inte...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo

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It's 30-odd years since I first read Akira , borrowing each instalment of the beautiful, full-colour run produced by Epic Comics that a ...
Monday, August 09, 2021

Producing Doctor Who

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I'm the new producer of the Doctor Who : Lost Stories range - and Tom Baker's boss, which has been a delight. My masters at Big Fin...
Friday, August 06, 2021

Directing Doctor Who

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The latest special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to directing . It includes my interview with Rachel Talalay about directing 201...
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...
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