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.

Filming

Posted on 29 January 2024 by Henry Gee

I met this small grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) on the beach at Cromer last week. Although grey seals are fairly active at this time of year — you see their heads bobbing up just offshore now and again — in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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My Best Reads of 2023

Posted on 1 January 2024 by Henry Gee

This year I have read a number of books equivalent to the Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, which is fewer than last year (62) or the year before (54). I was going to offer excuses … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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What I Read In December

Posted on 30 December 2023 by Henry Gee

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: A City On Mars Just when I was finishing the draft of my next book, in which I was wondering idly about possible futures for people in space, I came across this entertaining and very refreshing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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What I Read In November, And Other Stuff

Posted on 20 December 2023 by Henry Gee

Betty M. Owen (ed): Eleven Great Horror Stories As you both probably know I am a confirmed Haunter of the Dark secondhand bookshops, in which emporia I like to paw pore over mossy grimoires anthologies of science fiction, horror and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice

Posted on 9 November 2023 by Henry Gee

This eldritch example sent in — preternaturally, of course — by the ever-chthonic Mr C. D.  of Leeds. Ai, Shub-Niggurath, notwithstanding inasmuch as which other imprecations of a similar sort.

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What I Read In October

Posted on 2 November 2023 by Henry Gee

David Mitchell: Unruly Just so you know, this is not the same David Mitchell who wrote those modern fantasy classics Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks (this last reviewed here) and others. It is a different David Mitchell. This David Mitchell is the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice

Posted on 20 October 2023 by Henry Gee

This one from our correspondent Dr R___ H___, of a sign on a boardwalk at Qingdao, China, in what looks like rather threatening weather.
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What I Read In September

Posted on 30 September 2023 by Henry Gee

Andrew Smith: Moon Dust I was no more than seven years old, but I can still remember the towering model of a Saturn V rocket in my bedroom. I can still remember, like it was yesterday, or even earlier today, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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And Now, From Norwich

Posted on 16 September 2023 by Henry Gee

Someone (probably the notoriously acerbic conductor Sir Thomas Beecham) said that one should try anything except incest and morris dancing. The latter was certainly in evidence in Norwich earlier today (please, no jokes about what’s Normal for No… Continue reading →

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What I Read In August

Posted on 30 August 2023 by Henry Gee

R. F. Kuang: Babel Rebecca F Kuang is the new wunderkind of fantasy literature. Babel is her fourth novel out of five, and she is meant to be working on a sixth, if she has not already been crushed under the weight of plaudits, awards, award nomination… Continue reading →

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