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.

Index

Posted on 27 April 2013 by Henry Gee

The book is written, the proofs have been corrected, the date is set. Yes, The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution will be out in October, and you can, if you wish, pre-order it. But first, I have to do … Continue reading →

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Funerals

Posted on 18 April 2013 by Henry Gee

Unless you have spent the past week in a box buried 37 miles beneath the surface of Mars, you’ll have been aware that yesterday was the funeral of Baroness Thatcher, who was the Prime Minister of Britain between 1979 and … Continue reading →

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T*ts

Posted on 11 April 2013 by Henry Gee

There’s nothing like a picture of a comely young woman in her underwear to perk up one’s sagging spirits of an evening, but when I was alerted to the following story on the FB page of my friend Ms L. … Continue reading →

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Shooting The Badger

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Henry Gee

Crox Minor, for it is she, can never resist the urge to do the Harlem Shake in public, so jumped at the chance to don a badger mask and do the aforesaid shimmy to raise awareness about the prospect of … Continue reading →

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Another Mystery Bone For You To Identify

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Henry Gee

A while ago I posted a beachcombing of a bone found on the East Beach at Cromer, which my Friend Mr P. V. of Lewisham (who regularly entertains such images in his blog, Zygoma) identified as the humerus of a … Continue reading →

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Tolkien in Cromer

Posted on 3 April 2013 by Henry Gee

I knew that J. R. R. Tolkien had once visited Norwich, but imagine my shock and awe at the news, communicated by my friend Mr M. A.

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Conferences

Posted on 2 April 2013 by Henry Gee

I’ve just come back from EightSquaredCon, the 64th annual conference of the British Science Fiction Society, which was held on The Ice Planet Hoth in Bradford. As it’s held over the long Easter weekend it’s known as ‘Eastercon’. As SF conventions go, Eastercon tends … Continue reading →

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Very Quick Book Advert , Pass It On

Posted on 30 March 2013 by Henry Gee

Just a quick note from Eastercon, the British SF Con currently taking place in Bradford. I’m doing a promotion of my SF trilogy THE SIGIL. you can download Book 1, SIEGE OF STARS for FREE this weekend only from Reanimus … Continue reading →

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Plagues

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Henry Gee

Now, bear with me, I shan’t be long. You see, the mispoche are coming round later and I’ll have to get started slow-cooking a large leg of lamb for our seder. I’ll be leading it, which means that I’ll be … Continue reading →

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Boris

Posted on 26 March 2013 by Henry Gee

Both of you will know by now that in my humble opinion, posterity will view Boris Johnson, the current Mayor of London, as the greatest statesman of this or any other age. Such reaffirmation comes in the wake of a … Continue reading →

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