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.

To Boldly Go

Posted on 22 August 2013 by Henry Gee

I’m getting involved with a bold and brilliant new project in the fine city of Norwich. It’s a sixth-form college specializing in science and maths, launched under the government’s Free Schools program. After vaulting a number of planning hurdles, the … Continue reading →

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To Boldly Go

Posted on 22 August 2013 by Henry Gee

I’m getting involved with a bold and brilliant new project in the fine city of Norwich. It’s a sixth-form college specializing in science and maths, launched under the government’s Free Schools program. After vaulting a number of planning hurdles, the … Continue reading →

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My Holiday Reads

Posted on 22 August 2013 by Henry Gee

Yesterday I promised a run-down of my holiday reading, so, without further ado, and in no particular order, I shall start with Deer Island, a memoir by Neil Ansell – a short book, but in its way, perfectly formed. Ansell … Continue reading →

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What I Did In My Summer Holidays

Posted on 22 August 2013 by Henry Gee

Some of you might remember having visited our beach hut the Maison Des Girrafes Marine Biology Field Station. We gave this up about a year ago due to lack of use on our part – as well as the fact that … Continue reading →

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Landwards Ho!

Posted on 20 August 2013 by Henry Gee

A little while ago I noted that I’d had a story accepted in a new SF anthology called Looking Landwards, to be published on 28 October by NewCon Press, notwithstanding inasmuch as which I am in receipt of the official … Continue reading →

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Mammaloid

Posted on 8 August 2013 by Henry Gee

We editors at Your Favourite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N are masters of misrule. We revel in discord. We thrive on disagreement. Nothing pleases us more than witnessing the more cerebral branches of human misery. Nothing pushes our … Continue reading →

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Fantastic

Posted on 7 August 2013 by Henry Gee

By now the three of you know that if I am anywhere near a secondhand bookshop or bookstall of any description I can’t resist a rummage. This has been the case all my life. When I was a callow fifteen-year-old, … Continue reading →

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Ectopia

Posted on 3 August 2013 by Henry Gee

Contrary to popular belief, I am not a grumpy-trousers, and quite like my fiction – even if dark in places – to be uplifting. Dystopias tend by their very nature to be downbeat: a cheerful dystopia is an oxymoron, like … Continue reading →

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Questions, questions

Posted on 30 July 2013 by Henry Gee

Earlier today I had cause to trawl through the digital archives of Your Favourite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N, notwithstanding inasmuch as which I came across a series of articles I ran about ten years ago, over which … Continue reading →

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Landwards

Posted on 28 July 2013 by Henry Gee

This is the cover of Looking Landwards, designed by Andy Bigwood, a SF anthology to be published later this year by NewCon Press. It features stories from a lot of great writers, and me.

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