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.

PalaeoPenguin

Posted on 9 July 2011 by Henry Gee
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ConFabulation

Posted on 8 July 2011 by Henry Gee

Fables from the Fountain is an anthology of science-fiction and fantasy stories done as an hommage to Arthur C. Clarke’s Tales from the White Hart and also to raise money for the Clarke Award, which encourages new British SF writing. … Continue reading →

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Resonant Penguin

Posted on 7 July 2011 by Henry Gee

Yesterday Crox Minor came home with this picture (pastels on paper, not finished yet) of a penguin serving in World War I. She was tickled to learn of rpg’s similar explorations – of which she had hitherto been completely unaware … Continue reading →

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Middle-earth News Just In

Posted on 6 July 2011 by Henry Gee

I’ve literally just heard from my agent to learn that we have regained the rights to my book The Science of Middle-earth. This means that I am free to publish a comprehensively revised and updated edition in time for the … Continue reading →

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Printers

Posted on 5 July 2011 by Henry Gee

I’ve never had much luck with printers. No – not those fine people who print things, but those devices we attach to computers that facilitate that tricky phase transition from ones and zeroes to ground-up beetles on parchment. Recently, though, … Continue reading →

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Bigfoot

Posted on 4 July 2011 by Henry Gee

The day Kennedy was shot. Or Princess Diana died. Or when you first consciously heard Silence is Golden by the Tremeloes. These are the occasions where you remember very clearly where you were and what you were doing. One such … Continue reading →

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Grown Not Made – a Guest Post from Crox Minor

Posted on 3 July 2011 by Henry Gee

Yesterday, at the Lifeboat Café, in Cromer, me and Crox Major were enjoying our sausages, egg and chips when: “Hey Dad!” “Hmm?” “ You know it says ,“Grown, Not Made” on this Heinz tomato ketchup bottle?

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Apparition

Posted on 2 July 2011 by Henry Gee

One is accustomed, I suppose, to coming across strange things on Cromer beach. The apparition that greeted Crox Minor and I earlier today, though, takes the sausage biscuit. Something seemed strange even from a distance, as we discovered when approaching … Continue reading →

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Signs

Posted on 1 July 2011 by Henry Gee

Some of you will recall that chez Crox tends to be mentioned in dispatches as the ‘Maison des Girrafes’ for reasons that few will now remember, and that this appellation is commemorated in signage. Now that The Build is done, … Continue reading →

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Teaching

Posted on 27 June 2011 by Henry Gee

Many years ago when the world was young and I was feeling depressed with my lot I wondered, as I occasionally do, whether I could cut it as a science teacher. I have had some school teaching experience, and teaching … Continue reading →

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