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Talking Point: Chimera
My pal and sometime collaborator Malcolm Brown was sorting out some old VHS tapes and came across this, an off-air recording of an ITN News studio discussion between Dr Bob Williamson and me. John Suchet was in the chair. The year was 1990 and the occasion was the screening of my ITV miniseries based on…
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Gollancz Gateway
I’m happy to announce that the good folk at Orion Publishing have acquired my ebook backlist for their Gateway imprint, with title releases taking place over the next few weeks. It’s a move that will considerably widen availability across platforms beyond Amazon to include Apple, Google Books, and Kobo. You can find all the titles…
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Casting the Runes: Sci-Fi Bulletin Review
“The original was chilling enough; what’s done with it here ratchets that up considerably. 10/10″ Click here for the complete review on Sci-FiBulletin.com
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Casting the Runes
UPDATE: Released February 7th, 2019 If you’re still waiting for this, so am I; the plan was for a December Audible release but it’s been pushed to early in the New Year. I can’t tell you any more than that, but I can tell you this; I’ve heard the finished show and I’m really happy…
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THE SPIRIT BOX 2-day promotion, free download
From midnight to midnight (Pacific Time) over Sunday December 23rd and Monday 24th, you can download The Spirit Box from Amazon at no cost. Zilch. Zero. Update: extended to the end of Christmas Day, December 25th. Click here for your region’s Amazon link or scroll down and click on ‘Buy the ebook’. “The finest British…
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Seriously, eBay?
I reckon Putin’s people must have hacked eBay and now they’re trolling me. I searched for a nice old hardback copy of Boris Pasternak’s counter-revolutionary classic Doctor Zhivago, and now when I log in these are my literary ‘recommendations’: The map puzzle book is the hardest to explain, unless it’s an unsubtle message for…
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Doctor Who, Season 18 on Blu Ray
The ‘as-yet unscheduled‘ limited edition Blu Ray release of Doctor Who season 18 is now on the schedule for a February 2019 UK launch. It includes a feature titled The Writers’ Room, filmed in a secret location (okay, it was a rather fine pub in Stoke Newington) where Chris Bidmead, Andrew Smith, John Flanagan and…
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Leytonstone: the Afterword
The second in Stephen Volk’s Dark Masters trilogy of novellas, each of which delves into the fictional psyche of a real-life figure from the darker end of the popular arts, Leytonstone is an extended riff upon a well-known incident from the early life of Alfred Hitchcock. I was honoured to be asked to write an…
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Scraps of WHO
A quick note on some Doctor Who-related stuff I’ve got coming up in the New Year. I’ll give more details on each in due course but for now, just the headlines… During the summer I was one of four Season 18 writers participating in a filmed chat for the as-yet unscheduled Blu Ray release. All…
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Becker’s World
“We have a man. We want to know if we can trust him and I think you can get us the answer.” Sebastian Becker was never meant to live, but sometimes you just don’t plan these things. He made his first appearance in The Kingdom of Bones, pursuing the fugitive Tom Sayers from London’s Music…