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.

Legs [8]

Posted on 23 December 2011 by Henry Gee

This will probably be my last post for 2011, and if it is, or even if it isn’t, I offer you both the compliments of the season. I shall leave you with this picture taken earlier today at the pet … Continue reading →

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Support Student Volunteering Week 2012! [2]

Posted on 22 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Volunteering is a big part of the student experience. When I was an undergraduate at Leeds University in the early 1980s I was part of a project that read texts and coursework onto tape for blind students. After a short … Continue reading →

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The Real Meaning of Chanukah [15]

Posted on 21 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Yesterday was the First Night of Chanukah; today is the Solstice; so here is an old essay of mine that comes out at this time of year as regularly as the Chanukah Bush is erected in the drawing room, baubles … Continue reading →

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Rig [36]

Posted on 16 December 2011 by Henry Gee

If you agree with me that the purpose of blogs – this one in particular, if not blogs in general – is to be gratuitously self-indulgent in public, then I trust you won’t object to what follows, which is a … Continue reading →

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Nook [7]

Posted on 16 December 2011 by Henry Gee

You probably have never heard of the Nook, the proprietary e-reader from Messrs. Barnes & Noble. Well, you have now, in which case, should you find yourself in possession of such a device, you will be delirious to learn that … Continue reading →

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Festive Pig [15]

Posted on 13 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Just a quick reminder to get your orders in for Defiant the Guinea Pig – Firefighter!, a mini-epic adventure written by me and Crox Minima. I’ve been selling this special boutique edition for a limited time only as a print-on-demand … Continue reading →

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Classic Rock For Dogs

Posted on 11 December 2011 by Henry Gee

One of my favourite books is Poetry for Cats – the Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse by Henry Beard, a writer on National Lampoons (I believe) as well as the author of such titles as French for Cats and X-Treme … Continue reading →

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Regions

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Henry Gee

My apologies for being late to the party. I could plead that I missed the bus, thinking – mistakenly, as it turned out – that it went to the station, but I shall not plumb that particular chthonos. I shall … Continue reading →

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Fountainous

Posted on 7 December 2011 by Henry Gee

While we’re on the subject of holiday reading, I am informed by one Ian Whates, scholar, gentleman, SF author and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, publisher of the SF anthology Fables from the Fountain, that sales so far have raised a … Continue reading →

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Patterns

Posted on 6 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Being another excerpt from my gestating tome The Beowulf Effect, written today between Liverpool Street and Colchester, after which I played several rounds of Angry Birds. We human beings have at least two remarkable abilities. One of them is pattern … Continue reading →

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