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This was a bigger hit with my teenage son than Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith , which I think he found a bit too abstract too often. But...

I read an earlier version of this book more than a decade ago as prep for The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who , and it's never really l...

Published today to raise money for autism charities, Ace Jacket - The Inside Story is an A4 softback boasting more than 250 pages of origina...

The wife and children were generous with my annual appraised (or "Father's Day"). I got a lie in, a badge of a smiley fried eg...

James Goss, the master brain behind Target Book Club, a celebration of the Doctor Who novelisations, has announced that I'm one of this ...

The first volume of Space Security Service is out today from Big Finish. This new audio series, which I produced, comprises three adventure...

The super deluxe collectors' edition of Quatermass 2 is now available to pre-order from Hammer Films . It's released next month. Amo...

Big Finish have shared the cover artwork for Smith & Sullivan: Reunited , the Doctor Who spin-off audio set out next month which include...

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine comes with this exclusive edition of The Wheel in Space by Terrance Dicks, which I’d never read be...

This comprehensive plunge into the sci-fi horror TV serial from 1953 has been a joy to read. I should declare right away that it’s written b...

“It’s all so unbearable. No wonder we work so hard to look away. No wonder we erect those walls, literal and psychological. No  wonder we wo...

I’ve received my copy of this lavish new guide to the Cybermen , produced by the team at Doctor Who Magazine . Gav Rymill and I have written...

Following Friday’s post , a bit more time travel via old TV. This book exploring the “golden age” of TV drama — and critiquing that term — t...

I am one of the 171 authors in the newly announced  Outside In Can Live With It , an anthology of perspectives on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...

Old TV is time travel. It’s full of extraordinary, telling details, often stuff that the people making the programme weren’t conscious of as...

On 2 December 1677, a certain Jean Guerier (sic) from Paris was recorded in a list of refugees arriving at the Huguenot Church in Threadneed...

Published in 1990, this short, 174-page book examines the process of adapting “classic” novels for the screen. “Intended for a general as we...