Doctor Who

22 December 2001: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
It began late one night, in Chicago I believe, or an imaginary city much like it, with Errthum and I,...
20 August 2001: Night of the Other Triffids
Carnivorous plants without mouths, mere stalks, spongy, green, and lined with narrow needle-leaves, and tipped with a single bud with...
06 August 2001: Pot and Paraplegics
Errthum was hoping to buy some marijuana...Fortunately, I just happened to have some on hand, a knot of green Twizzlers...
08 June 2000: Paint
My evil relatives were holed up in a nuclear weapons storage facility, and a little black witch woman told me...
07 April 2000: Daleks
I was on the planet Skaro, which seemed to be a post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland, red and rusted, covered in bits...
22 March 2000: Canada gets the Bomb
I was sailing to Canada from the Old World, in the 17th century. The ship, a stout three-masted vessel of...
25 January 2000: Airline Departures Timetable
On a smallish, cramped airliner (narrow aisle, with two columns of chairs on either side of it) with a red...
18 September 1999: Destroying the Sun
It started off at Van Allen Hall, the University's physics building. One corner of it had been gutted, was just...
31 July 1999: Live and Let Die
The Society was looking for a home. There were many of us, mostly men ranging from the fresh-faced and young...
17 June 1999: In the Park
Anthony Ainley (as 'The Master', a naughty villain from Doctor Who) was paddling a canoe with a troopful of boy...
25 November 1998: The Faustus Effect
I was commissioned to complete a novel half-finished by Marc Platt, about a lone, deranged, half-converted Cyberman committing a series...
20 August 1998: Playground
Do you know how playgrounds sometimes have these big wooden castle-like complexes of slides, tunnels, shaky bridges and things for...