As you might have guessed from the cover, this week we’re celebrating Doctor Who, the BBC’s long running science fiction programme that has been on for the last fifty years (apart from that embarrassing decade and a half when all they churned out was a charity Eastenders mashup, a TV movie that didn’t quite deliver and a Rowan Atkinson spoof). As a result, I’m including my time travel story The Rogue Planet, which is featured alongside similar tributes in Horrified Press’ anthology Twelve, out this week.
As a small child, I refused to learn to read until I discovered novelisations of the Doctor Who series, so quite possibly Schlock would never have existed without it. A very merry WHO-mas to thee and thine!
We also have Machinations of the Godlike by Stanton McCaffery, a tale of whales more horrific than attempting to read Moby Dick cover-to-cover. Then there’s Slaves to the Machine, a robopocalyptic tale of a dark future. Don’t Call Me Spaz! ends this week, but what will be the fate of Zak? And The Days of Mr Thomas continues.
In the Thousand and One Nights, we read the tale of the Thrall o’ Love. In Cut we encounter Gary Billington, a “loner with few friends.” The Caves of Mars reaches a climactic battle on the Ochre Plains. Nu-yok falls in The Airlords of Han. And in The People That Time Forgot, the cave girl Ajor tells her tale.
And work continues on the new Schlock anthologies, or more probably anthology now… Watch this space…
As a small child, I refused to learn to read until I discovered novelisations of the Doctor Who series, so quite possibly Schlock would never have existed without it. A very merry WHO-mas to thee and thine!
We also have Machinations of the Godlike by Stanton McCaffery, a tale of whales more horrific than attempting to read Moby Dick cover-to-cover. Then there’s Slaves to the Machine, a robopocalyptic tale of a dark future. Don’t Call Me Spaz! ends this week, but what will be the fate of Zak? And The Days of Mr Thomas continues.
In the Thousand and One Nights, we read the tale of the Thrall o’ Love. In Cut we encounter Gary Billington, a “loner with few friends.” The Caves of Mars reaches a climactic battle on the Ochre Plains. Nu-yok falls in The Airlords of Han. And in The People That Time Forgot, the cave girl Ajor tells her tale.
And work continues on the new Schlock anthologies, or more probably anthology now… Watch this space…
