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.

Sheket!

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Henry Gee

A little while ago I was with a group of family and friends discussing the Bilderberg Group, a kind of un-conference in which the world’s movers and shakers can get together and discuss matters of great import in an informal … Continue reading →

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Bodies

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Crox Minor (15), who has just gotten three GCSE examinations out of the way (all with A*s, I might add), and is embarking on a lot more this year, wants to be a surgeon. She has her heart set on … Continue reading →

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Cake

Posted on 1 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Earlier today the Croxii collectively attended my sister’s birthday party, which was held at her family’s beach hut on Cromer West Beach (the déclassé end of Cromer, if you ask me, but we’ll let that pass) Cromer West Beach, earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Andy Connelly, cake, Delia Smith, Domesticrox, Nigella Lawson, release of calcium from intracellular stores, Science Is Vital, science of cookery | Comments Off on Cake

A New Arrival

Posted on 29 August 2013 by Henry Gee

Notwithstanding inasmuch as which the recollections of those few you who remember why chez Crox is sometimes known as the Maison des Girrafes, there has been little evidence of same, either in the Maison itself, or in the Jardin adjacent. … 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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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 →

Posted in A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson, borges, chthonic, cloud atlas, david mitchell, Deer Island, eldritch, funes the memorious, ireneo funes, Neil Ansell, Paul Murray, Science-fiction, Shakespeare, Skippy Dies, the circular ruins, thinking, thinking about thinking, Writing & Reading | Comments Off on My Holiday Reads

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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