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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Time Team Unearthed - The Art of Adrian Salmon

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I've had some late nights reading / poring over this beautiful new book collating the artwork that Adrian Salmon produced over more than...
Monday, April 27, 2026

The Case of the Missing Masterpiece, by Terrance Dicks

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This is the first of 10 novels to feature the “Baker Street Irregulars” — not the street gang who assisted Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of th...
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Sunday, April 26, 2026

Fools, by Pat Cadigan

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First published in the US in 1992, and in the UK in 1994, Fools by Pat Cadigan won the Clark Award for best science-fiction novel in 1995. ...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

New short story in What The World Needs Now, ed. Martin Edwards

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I have a short story in the forthcoming anthology What The World Needs Now: Mystery Stories Inspired by the Music of Burt Bacharach , edited...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

A Riot of Writers, by Terrance Dicks

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First published on 16 July 1992, this was the second of a series of illustrated, non-fiction comedy titles written by Terrance Dicks for Pic...
Friday, April 17, 2026

A Hard Day’s Night, by Samira Ahmed

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I really enjoyed this engaging insightful study of the first Beatles movie, filmed and released in 1964. It’s the first book written by my f...
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 ...
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