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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Star Trek 2, by James Blish

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This second volume of prose adaptations of TV episodes was first published a year after the first, in February 1968. So says the indicia of ...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

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After delivering a manuscript a couple of weeks ago, I celebrated by taking the Lord of Chaos to see Project Hail Mary at the cinema, having...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Stalky & Co, by Rudyard Kipling

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A fortnight ago, I was again at the BBC’s Written Archives Centre to undertake more research for my forthcoming biography of Terrance Dicks....
Thursday, April 09, 2026

The Great When, by Alan Moore

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“So it’s all true then. I suppose I’ve always had a feeling in my stomach telling me it was, but if you’ve been there, then I can’t deny it,...
Sunday, April 05, 2026

Tales of the Suburbs, by John Grindrod

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I've had a busy couple of weeks chasing about, and need to write up notes on various things read. Yesterday, I was at Riverside Studios ...
Thursday, April 02, 2026

Doctor Who Magazine #628

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The new issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine is out today, featuring an exclusive extra comic and a  preview of the two episodes of Th...
Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Star Trek (1), by James Blish

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Who are the leading characters in the original Star Trek ? The front cover of this breezy paperback adaptation of seven early TV adventures ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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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...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The Uses of Literacy, by Richard Hoggart

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“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...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Spock Must Die!, by James Blish

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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...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Artron Energy podcast #18

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The latest Artron Energy podcast is an interview with me about my various Doctor Who related scribblings, conducted by Freddie Hull and Brad...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Doctor Who missing episodes found - in the Telegraph

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I've written a piece for the Telegraph about the thrilling discovery, announced today, of two episodes of Doctor Who that have been lost...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Writing the Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst

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Subtitled "Essays on Crafting Science Fiction", this is an anthology first published in 2023 comprising, in most cases, authors ta...
Sunday, March 01, 2026

“NKATA” in Interzone #304

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My unsettling short story “NKATA” is featured in the latest issue of long-running science-fiction magazine Interzone (issue #304, March 202...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The Heartless Sea - out now

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My latest Doctor Who audio adventure, The Heartless Sea , is now available to download. It's paired with another story,  The Kraken of H...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984

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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...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Croquet Player, by HG Wells

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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...
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