Author Archives: Henry Gee

About Henry Gee

Henry Gee is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist, who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets, inasmuch as which the contents of this blog and any comments therein do not reflect the opinions of anyone but myself, as they don't know where they've been.

Blogging Briefly: a Guest Post from J. S. Watts

Posted on 12 November 2013 by Henry Gee

I’m seriously chuffed to be guesting on The End of The Pier Show. I once had a significant oil leak in Cromer (Well, I didn’t, you understand. My car did) and I’ve never quite got over it, but I’m not … Continue reading →

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The Maison Des Girrafes Caption Competition #101

Posted on 10 November 2013 by Henry Gee

The best caption will receive plaudits, approbation of one’s peers, and so on and so forth in like fashion. Here’s one to start you off – “Oh, Spiderman – I never thought you’d be as furry as that. Or such … Continue reading →

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Extrafunicular

Posted on 10 November 2013 by Henry Gee

If posting on this blog were not enough, I have also been writing things for other people, and other people have been writing things about me. The frequency of such extrafactual activity has been heightened by the propinquity of my … Continue reading →

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My Favourite Book

Posted on 8 November 2013 by Henry Gee

… is Labyrinths by the Argentine essayist Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). I bought this copy earlier today at Waterstones in Norwich: this portrait was taken in the in-store café, moments later. No, this is not an instant conversion. I’m not … Continue reading →

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Don’t Shoot the Messenger – a Guest Post from Brian Clegg

Posted on 7 November 2013 by Henry Gee

A few days ago my friend Mr B. C. of Swindon, for it is he, let me erupt onto his blog concerning the scientific illiteracy one finds in the desert that is televisual emission. Today I return the compliment, and … Continue reading →

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Guest

Posted on 5 November 2013 by Henry Gee

If you’ve come here expecting a new post – don’t worry. Please retune your browser to the fine establishment of my friend Mr B. C. of Swindon, where I have a guest post today. Anyone fancy doing a guest post … Continue reading →

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Wagnerismus

Posted on 4 November 2013 by Henry Gee

I remember it well – the moment after I, as an audience member at a panel at an SF convention, mentioned how much I liked the novel Ender’s Game by one Orson Scott Card, when the temperature appeared to drop … Continue reading →

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Tees

Posted on 2 November 2013 by Henry Gee

Many years ago I read one of those daft lists, you know the kind, you find them in magazines, colour sections and so on, with titles such as ‘twelve ways to know you’re not a pickled cucumber’ or ‘fourteen ways … Continue reading →

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It’s Samhain, Already!

Posted on 31 October 2013 by Henry Gee

Welcome to our ‘umble ‘ome … Our ‘umble ‘ome, earlier today. … where you’ll be greeted by Mysterious Hooded Figures. A Mysterious Hooded Figure, yesterday.

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Immigration

Posted on 30 October 2013 by Henry Gee

Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1655 – the days of the Protectorate. In that year, Oliver Cromwell received an embassy from the Netherlands, of a Dutch Jew, one Manasseh Ben Israel, who asked the Lord Protector whether … Continue reading →

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