Autocorrect on Word doesn’t like ‘cyberplanner’ and wants to change it to ‘cyberflaneur’. Would have made the Doctor Who stories The Wheel In Space and The Invasion considerably different affairs if the Cybermen had been led by some loafing, affluent chap about town!
Candy Jar Books' latest UNIT novel sees Doctor Who's Brigadier battle evil tech billionaire Tobias Vaughn once again in The Vaughn Supremacy
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Is there a matching stone tape dispenser?
Hi, SJ! We all have our crosses to bear, alas… 🤣
After the catharsis of being able to announce some new UNIT books on the way, Sunday afternoon brings me plummeting back to reality with a stark reminder that I still need to clean out the chickens... Oh, happy day! 🤣
Top man, Andy - thanks for the push 👍
The usual freebies with the hardback being an art card and a copy of the The Benton Files VII.
Just announced and available for pre-order exclusively from Candy Jar Books, UNIT Book 4: The Vaughn Supremacy. Words by Yours Truly. Cover art by the very talented Martin Baines.
Paperback or ltd edition hardback (with the usual freebies).
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Now available for pre-order from Candy Jar Books, The Benton Files Collection. Features all the stories from The Benton Files I-VII, plus an exclusive new story.
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Let's hope their telephone sales people have been taught to deliver the line 'Yooooo have cho-ssen wyyyyyysssley,' when they land the sale, too.
Happy Doctor Who Day, everyone. Live long, and prosper!
Bank Holiday Monday by the sea 🥰
Bank Holiday Monday by the sea 🥰
There is nothing so awkward, as courting a woman, an’ please your honour, whilst she is making sausages—
(Tristram Shandy, Vol IX, Ch.VII)
Harold 😏
New book alert! Arrived this weekend, the new, expanded edition of The Lucy Wilson Mysteries: Back in London, featuring my 2019 story, 'The Midwife & The Alien', courtesy of those fine people at Candy Jar Books.
Just announced and available for pre-order exclusively from Candy Jar Books, Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC Files 5 & 6, celebrating 10yrs of Lethbridge-Stewart and 15yrs of Candy Jar.
Fathers’ Day at the seaside 😊
Time-twisting trouble and heroic hijinks: The Lucy Wilson Mysteries return to celebrate 15 Years of Candy Jar Books
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Andy's fantasy novel is finally available, and it's wide at all APPS and available for libraries. Sword and Sorcery. Inspired by the New Wave fantasy of Moorcock, McCaffrey and le Guin. Existential journey in unfamiliar lands. Action, quest and adventurers. A standalone story. “Everything decays, but the glass’steel decayed at a rate so slow as to be invisible on the scale of a single lifetime. In the sword she saw visions of her home. Her home so far away, deep down in the reflection of her elven eyes, sunk deep in her memory, transferred to the blade, as far away as a million years is long.” Zana Hala’Kaalni is a warrior princess in exile, untethered from her home, and from her sense of self. Allowing chaos to lead her, she enters a nation on the verge of civil war, a quest for a failed utopia, and the ruins of a long dead era, the lost history of her world. Aertelis combines the action of classic Sword & Sorcery, the literary themes of the Sci-fi Fantasy New Wave, and the character-driven storytelling of the modern era. Aertelis is a standalone story in the Kalni Chronicles anthology.
Do you want a character-driven adventure echoing classic Sword & Sorcery film and TRPGs, but also the literary style, worldbuilding and themes of the New Wave writers like Moorcock and Le Guin?
Wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
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After The Avengers S3, I need to find something different to watch. Either the longer episodes of Danger Man (love me some McGoohan!) or the Red Dwarf Bodysnatcher DVD boxset, which I recently picked up second-hand. I couldn't stand the 're-mastered' Red Dwarf S1-3 episodes at the time, though...
I appreciate Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale was something of a cultural phenomenon (and brilliant, too) but it's a shame that there's barely even an acknowledgment of Jon Rollason's Dr King or Julie Stevens' Venus Smith in The Avengers DVD interviews & docos for S2/3. Credit where it's due and all that
I missed Ian Hendry's Dr Keel after The Avengers S1. S2 was good, but I felt the show was trying to find its way with the rotating assistants. I liked Jon Rollason, but Dr King was clearly a cover for the absent Dr Keel (and only 3 letters to replace on the scripts!) In S3 they nailed it, though.
Finished Series 3 of The Avengers, so that's all the Cathy Gale episodes watched. I've enjoyed the whole show so far, but particularly loved Series 3 - it really felt like the series had found its stride. I'll take a break before tackling the Mrs Peel era, and watch something else instead...
We're back! Again! At last! This week, Andy & I tackle Doctor Who: The Web Planet, parts 1-3, in a joyous session. Do join us - it's all free!
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Have you got your copy yet?
Have you got your copy yet?
