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Red and Blue are on opposite sides in a war through all of time. They zip back and forth, to see London on fire after a plague, or being bui...

“If we want to capture something of the essence of working-class life … we must say that it is the ‘dense and concrete life’, a life whose m...

A matter transporter in Star Trek works like a fax machine that destroys the original. That, effectively, is the case put by Dr Leonard McC...

The latest Artron Energy podcast is an interview with me about my various Doctor Who related scribblings, conducted by Freddie Hull and Brad...

I've written a piece for the Telegraph about the thrilling discovery, announced today, of two episodes of Doctor Who that have been lost...

Subtitled "Essays on Crafting Science Fiction", this is an anthology first published in 2023 comprising, in most cases, authors ta...

My unsettling short story “NKATA” is featured in the latest issue of long-running science-fiction magazine Interzone (issue #304, March 202...

My latest Doctor Who audio adventure, The Heartless Sea , is now available to download. It's paired with another story,  The Kraken of H...

From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine , Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984 is now on sale. My two pieces are: Frontios Row Seat (pp. 48-49) Today...

This short, 82-page novella first published in 1936 was recommended to me after I posted about the 1934 and 1941 editions of A Short History...

A Criminal Practice , a comic play by Terrance Dicks first broadcast on 5 July 1967, has been repeated on Radio 4 Extra today at 3pm and 9pm...

I read this compelling account of the early days of the American space programme — and the egos involved — an age ago, before my 2009 trip t...

The Hamster Book Club podcast, devoted to  Doctor Who books, has posted a big long interview with me , covering my books The Time Travellers...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out now. I've a couple of pieces in it. pp. 12-15 "I name you, Sea Devils" Palaeonto...

Dr Una McCormack recommended me this brilliant book on the craft of writing. The title is a pun, the idea being that a piece of writing — a ...

The latest Doctor Who Magazine special edition is out today, The Yearbook 2026 . Among its wonders is something by me: How You Watch Who (p...

I’ve greatly enjoyed this enormous, 540-page oral history of children’s television on the BBC between 1967 and 1997, published by Ten Acre B...

The latest instalment in Louie Stowell's Loki series, A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos , is great fun, though the nine year-old L...

I've written a piece for the Telegraph about Blake's 7 (£), in response to yesterday's story in Deadline  about a new reboot  w...

For the time being, this will be the last of my long posts on the 236 books written by Terrance Dicks . I need to focus on some other projec...