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The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Talk on David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks

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The talk I gave on Doctor Who writers David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks for the York Festival of Ideas earlier this month is now up in full ...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Doctor Who Magazine's Time Museum

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Out now from the people what make Doctor Who Magazine , The Time Museum   is - it says here - a virtual exhibition of the whole of Doctor Wh...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Doctor Who quiz on YouTube

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I'm one of the contenders on the debut episode of Gav Rymill's Doctor Who quiz, battling Ellie Collins, Benjamin Cook and Tim Missin...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Telegraph article on Coronation Street's dry-run episodes

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I am in the Telegraph again, this time with a piece about the photographs that recently came to light of the never-broadcast dry-run episod...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Interview with Nadine Kaadan for Macfest

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Last month, I interviewed children's author and illustrator Nadine Kaadan for an online event that was part of the annual Macfest intern...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E Butler

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This gripping thriller, first published in 1993, comprises diary entries written by American teenager Lauren Oya Olamina between 2024 and 20...
Monday, May 04, 2026

The House of Shattered Wings, by Aliette de Bodard

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Fallen angels stalk the ruins of Paris. The newly fallen Isabelle is preyed upon by a street gang who sever two of her fingers, keen to stea...
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,...
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