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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Friday, October 25, 2024

The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Atomic Radiation, by Margot Bennett

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“Informed public opinion is infectious, even to governments.” (p. 149) Thursday, 30 July 1964 saw publication of two paperback “Penguin Spec...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all they ...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

The Secret Life of Fungi, by Aliya Whiteley

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This handsome little hardback is an arresting read. The strange, tactile quality of Aliya Whiteley's fiction has long entranced me (see ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Spook Street, by Mick Herron

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I've been listening to this, the fourth of Mick Herron's Slow Horses books, a little behind the run of the TV version and it's b...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Exit Through the Fireplace, by Kate Dunn

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First published in 1998, this is an oral history of repertory theatre - which is where the same group of actors star in play after play, usu...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Doctor Who Magazine #609

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The latest issue of the official  Doctor Who Magazine is out now, and very excitingly comes with an exclusive Target novelisation of the 19...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Real Tigers, by Mick Herron

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This is the third of the, to date, eight Slough House novels (following Slow Horses and Dead Lions ). Again, the TV version - which I saw f...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

The Furious Masters, by Margot Bennett

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This is a review of a comic science-fiction novel from 1968, sort of John Wyndham done as sitcom. Yet in poking fun at the mores and anxieti...
Thursday, October 03, 2024

Doctor Who and the Time-Travelling Almanac, by me

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It seems like only a week since my last book was out. But today sees publication of Doctor Who - The Time-Travelling Almanac , billed as the...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

The Story of the Solar System, by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

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Out today, The Story of the Solar System - A Visual Journey , is a sumptuous big book of space infographics written by Dr Maggie Aderin-Poco...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Garry Halliday and the Flying Foxes, by Justin Blake

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This is the last of the five Garry Halliday novelisations, published in 1965. That was three years after the last new episode of the TV seri...
Monday, September 23, 2024

The Masquerades of Spring, by Ben Aaronovitch

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This is great fun - a Rivers of London novella set in New York in the Jazz Age, narrated by the woosterish Augustus Berrycloth-Young. Gussi...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Doctor Who and the Left-Handed Hummingbird, by Kate Orman

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Someone is meddling with time. That means that when an Aztec warrior ventures into a long abandoned Exxilon spaceship, he isn't instant...
Monday, September 16, 2024

The Voice of the Dolphins, by Leo Szilard

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Prompted by Richard Flanagan's Question 7 , I sought out this "science-fiction" anthology by the Hungarian physicist Leo Szila...
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