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.

The Sigil Approacheth

Posted on 26 August 2012 by Henry Gee

I can announce that Siege of Stars, the first volume of my SF epic The Sigil, will be published this Friday (31 August) as an eBook, and on 4 September in print. And, while you are waiting for that toothsome … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #1722

Posted on 22 August 2012 by Henry Gee

This notice found pasted to the door leading to the attic room in a gloriously higgledy-piggledy secondhand bookshop, recently. The final invocation imprecation instruction in particular is awfully suggestive of tales of gothick horror perhaps yet to condense from the … Continue reading →

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STEM

Posted on 17 August 2012 by Henry Gee

Over the years I’ve enthused in public about science, to various audiences. I have given seminars to graduate students and faculty about being an editor at Your Favourite Etc., and if you don’t believe me here’s the evidence. Notwithstanding inasmuch … Continue reading →

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Vapid

Posted on 12 August 2012 by Henry Gee

Earlier this evening Mrs Crox warmed up the televisual receiver for the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. It wasn’t long before the vacuity of the commentary drove me to flight. My, the editorial standards of the BBC have … Continue reading →

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The Sigil Has Landed

Posted on 8 August 2012 by Henry Gee

Ladies and Gentlemen – you may now download, if you wish, pre-release advance copies of  Siege of Stars, the first volume of The Sigil, for US$15. If you do that, I am assured that you’ll be entitled to download the … Continue reading →

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Kaddish II

Posted on 8 August 2012 by Henry Gee

No, no, no, no, no.  I know you were all trying to be nice, responding to my complaint about the lack of any memorial to the Israeli athletes gunned down at the Munich Games in 1972, with cosy phrases about … Continue reading →

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Manners

Posted on 6 August 2012 by Henry Gee

I have written elsewhere on the campaign to get a skate park up and running in Cromer, discussing the fact that whereas elderly residents are amply served by the community, young people, in particular, suffer for want of constructive activity or … Continue reading →

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Mensch

Posted on 6 August 2012 by Henry Gee

It’s great to hear some good news. Team GB is practically buried under the weight of its gold medals. We at the Maison des Girrafes thrill to the winning smile of Mo Farah. Mrs Crox admires Cath Jessica Ennis’ abs, … Continue reading →

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Spineless in Cromer

Posted on 3 August 2012 by Henry Gee

Many years when the world was young (OK, it was the mid-1980s) I was a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, having lots of fun playing in rock bands and pretending to do a Ph.D. In the gaps between … Continue reading →

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Wilderness

Posted on 29 July 2012 by Henry Gee

What is the difference between Left and Right? I have always had trouble with this. When I was small I learned the difference from a Natural History Museum guidebook which, on one page, had a picture of Tyrannosaurus rex on … Continue reading →

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