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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Doctor Who Magazine #613

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The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out today, with news of who is writing episodes of the forthcoming TV series plus a ne...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Holiday Sketches exhibition at Senate House

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Exciting news! The clever Dr has curated an exhibition which opens this Saturday, 1 February, and runs until 14 March, at Senate House in Lo...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Power of 3 podcast #351: The Time Travellers

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The latest episode of Kenny Smith's Power of 3 podcast is about my Doctor Who novel  The Time Travellers , first published in 2005 and s...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

A Doctor Who pitch: Perfect Worlds

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Yesterday, while searching for something else I came across five one-paragraph ideas for Doctor Who audiobooks that I submitted on Sunday,...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Someone from the Past, by Margot Bennett

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Nancy Graham, 26 year-old magazine writer and the narrator of this novel, is out for dinner with her fiancee Donald when they bump into Susa...
Friday, January 03, 2025

Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

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“Six of them in a great H of metal hanging above the earth. They turn head on heel, four astronauts (American, Japanese, British, Italian) a...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

Doctor Who Magazine #612

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The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is officially out today (though, via SIDRAT capsule, some subscriber copies arrived last ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Truth & Dare, by So Mayer

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“The funny thing is that getting the morning-after pill the first day of a zombie apocalypse is really no easier or harder than on a previou...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Adventures in Type and Space

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My clever colleagues Graham and Jack Kibble-White and Stuart Manning have produced a lovely supplement to last year's Adventures in Type...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Last Chance to See..., by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

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With a long old drive in the company of the young Lord of Chaos, I choose an audiobook to match the expected duration (and was only five min...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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“How can we trap them?” (p. 589) Doctor Avrana Kern begins an ambitious scientific study. From her spaceship the Brin 2, she launches two ve...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Hackenfeller’s Ape, by Brigid Brophy

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Professor Clement Darrelhyde spends his days at London Zoo, singing opera by Mozart to one of the enclosures. Despite this encouragement, Pe...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 2025

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The 2025 yearbook from Doctor Who Magazine is now out, featuring a couple of things typed by me. Pages 28 and 29 relive the experience, in ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Farewell Crown and Good-bye King, by Margot Bennett

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After so enjoying Margot Bennett’s 1952 crime novel The Widow of Bath , I plunged into her next novel, a thriller first published in 1953. I...
Monday, December 09, 2024

Missing Believed Wiped 2024

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I had a lovely day out on Saturday at the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped event(s), where we got to see an assortment of old telly that had bee...
Sunday, December 08, 2024

The Power of 3 podcast #316: The Time-Travelling Almanac

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I spoke to Kenny Smith for his Power of 3 podcast about my new book, Doctor Who: The Time-Travelling Almanac , which would of course make th...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Doctor Who Magazine #611

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The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out now, boasting a preview of the forthcoming Christmas special and the colour versio...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Ten years since our eldest daughter died

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It is 10 years today since the death of our eldest daughter, Emily Maud, aged just eight days' old. I blogged about what happened  that ...
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Sunday, December 01, 2024

The Widow of Bath, by Margot Bennett

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The blurb for this British Library Crime Classics edition of a novel first published in 1952 quotes praise from Julian Symons in his landmar...
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