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.

Crossover Fanfic

Posted on 15 December 2013 by Henry Gee

Ever since one of her friends acquired a T-shirt on which was emblazoned a Mockingjay with the legend ‘District 9 3/4′, Crox Minima and I have been discussing crossover fanfic – that is, fan fiction in which two different franchises … Continue reading →

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Learning How to Say ‘No’

Posted on 13 December 2013 by Henry Gee

Notwithstanding inasmuch as which my reputation as an editor at Your Favorite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N, I’m just a girl who cain’t say ‘no’. I’m in a terrible fix. I always say ‘come on, let’s go,’ just … Continue reading →

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The Desolation of Smaug

Posted on 11 December 2013 by Henry Gee

To celebrate the imminent release at your local enormoplex of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, I’m giving away The Science of Middle Earth for that whole weekend, 12-15 December. My agent tells me that it’ll be available as a … Continue reading →

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The Morning After

Posted on 6 December 2013 by Henry Gee

Last night I reported that Cromer was being battered by the combination of a very high tide and onshore winds. This lunchtime the Canes Croxorum and I went down there to see for ourselves. From a distance, Cromer seems untouched, … Continue reading →

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The End Of The End Of The Pier Show?

Posted on 5 December 2013 by Henry Gee

This picture taken not one hour since by Cromer resident Spencer Gray and posted on Twitter (@spenny10) shows the proximal end of Cromer Pier getting a thorough battering in a lethal combo of high winds and high tides not seen … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #15

Posted on 3 December 2013 by Henry Gee

This one spotted on a large wooden packing case in the loading dock of a university department, by our correspondent Professor Trellis of North Wales, who disclaims all responsibility. “What the large wooden edifice contains seems to be a mystery,” … Continue reading →

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All I Want For Christmas

Posted on 1 December 2013 by Henry Gee

It’s now awfully fashionable to compile lists of things to see or do before you die. These lists are called Bucket Lists, presumably for the colloquialism in which ‘kicking the bucket’ means ‘die’ (qv. ‘bought the farm’, ‘flensed the ferret’, … Continue reading →

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They Shoot Authors, Don’t They? A Guest Post by Mark Lloyd

Posted on 27 November 2013 by Henry Gee

Mark Lloyd has just spent the weekend as a self-published author, plugging his book Rum Humour/Rum Humor on social media. And it hasn’t been fun. Activity. Bags of activity: hands and fingers slapping on keyboards, copying and pasting, tweeting, commenting, … Continue reading →

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Age

Posted on 24 November 2013 by Henry Gee

They say that you know you’re getting old when a good day is waking without pain. I haven’t quite got that far yet, though I have reached a Professor Branestawm stage with my spectacles. The picture on the right shows, … Continue reading →

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Who

Posted on 23 November 2013 by Henry Gee

Unless you have been buried 37 miles underground on the fifth moon of Jaglon Beta since – oooh – the Middle Pleistocene, it will not have escaped your notice that the 50th anniversary approaches of the first broadcast of Dr … Continue reading →

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