Thursday, February 27, 2025

Power of 3 podcast #360: Terror of the Suburbs

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I've just received my copy of the Blu-ray boxset  Doctor Who Season 7, comprising the 25 episodes first broadcast in 1970. This saw the ...
Monday, February 24, 2025

David Whitaker wrote 35 episodes of Crossroads

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I’ve just received my copy of Doctor Who Chronicles — 1970 , from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine . It features, on pp. 28-31 “Cross purpo...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Quoted in the Bookseller

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I'm quoted in  The Bookseller , in Heloise Wood's piece, 'Carelessness rife' in UK publishing fact-checking as concerns grow...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Children of Ruin, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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"There's always another way, even for you." The follow-up to Children of Time , first published in 2019,   is another epic, mi...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and Leuyen Pham

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This is fantastic - the moving, funny, emotional tale of teenage Valentina negotiating loss and love. The Dr bought it for me as a Valentin...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

A Masterpiece in Disarray - David Lynch's Dune an Oral History, by Max Evry

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On Thursday, 16 January, I received from a kind friend this enormous 500+ page book on the David Lynch version of Dune — a film we both fin...
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...