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Henry Gee
is an award-winning author, editor and recovering palaeontologist who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets. His latest book The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire is out now. His recreations include writing, making music, beachcombing, supporting Norwich City FC, and falling asleep. Click here for a full bio. For all bookish inquiries please contact Jill Grinberg Literary Management.
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Category Archives: Writing & Reading
Brain Strain
I am a career depressive. I’ve been on all the drugs. Back in the day I was on mianserin which they probably only use nowadays to tranquilize rhinos, and even then, only from a long way off. After I came … Continue reading
Posted in Domesticrox, Dreaming, Silliness, Writing & Reading
Tagged Bob Dylan, citalopram, depression, do you break a butterfly on a wheel, excuse me madam does this bus go to the station, james joyce, mianserin, mirtazapine, music, sertraline, St John's Wort, the Magic Roundabout, ulysses, venlafaxine, vortioxetine
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What I Read In May
Emma Healey: Elizabeth Is Missing I actually read this (and Little Egypt, below) in April, but squeezed it in at the very end during a weekend in which I had to see a man about a dog (no, really) so … Continue reading
Posted in Writing & Reading
Tagged an officer and a spy, charles dickens, conclave, dreyfus affair, elizabeth is missing, emma healey, fatherland, ghost, kazuo ishiguro, lesley glaister, little egypt, martin chuzzlewit, pompeii, robert harris, Salt Publishing, the fear index, the remains of the day
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What I Read In April
Björn Natthiko Lindeblad: I May Be Wrong ‘Oh, your poor brain’, says Mrs Gee, when she sees the stack of things I really must read; the list of tasks I give myself. Then she passed me this book. Now, you’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Science Is Vital, Writing & Reading
Tagged a e moorat, abraham lincoln vampire hunter, amadeus, anthropocene, arkady renko, beowulf shaeffer, bipedalism, Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, c j cherryh, chernobyl, chris d thomas, conservation, dogs, dogs behaving very badly, dr who, franglais, golden age of SF, gorky park, graeme hall, hellburner, human evolution, immigration, jenna coleman, Jeremy DeSilva, jim al-khalili, Johannes Krause, John W Campbell, larry niven, martin cruz smith, peter shaffer, puppeteers, star wars, the life scientific, the phantom menace, the tao of pooh, Thomas Trappe, whaqt christopher robin does in the mornings, White Rose, Winnie the Pooh
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First Person Plural
This first person singular — that’s ‘I’, meaning ‘me’ — has increasing difficulties with the first person plural — that’s ‘we’, meaning ‘us’. Every day I come across phrases, usually freighted with some agonised self-flagellating subtext, or so I assume, … Continue reading
Posted in Silliness, Writing & Reading
Tagged andrew dalby, crimp-eyed chuzzbanger, dictionary of languages, jared diamond, pidgin, tok pisin
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What I Read In March
Ehsan Masood: GDP The astute reader will note that this is very similar to Masood’s book The Great Invention, which I read in January. And the astute reader would be correct: the latter book was published in 2016, whereas the … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Writing & Reading
Tagged Bob Shaw, Ehsan Masood, Max Adams, Svante Paabo, Tom Higham
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World Poetry Day
Yes, I know, I know, World Poetry Day was a few days ago now, and as you read this it’s probably World Broccoli Day or World Make-Friends-With-A-Unicycling-Girrafe Day, but at the age of 59 and 11/12ths I’m a bit slow … Continue reading
Posted in Silliness, Writing & Reading
Tagged boson, Higgs, hilaire belloc, unicycling girrafes, world poetry day
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From McDonalds to Mordor
When The Lord Of The Rings was published in 1954, some readers suggested that its story echoed that of the Second World War, then still fresh in the minds of many. The onslaught on the ill-prepared Allies by an evil … Continue reading
Posted in Politicrox, Writing & Reading
Tagged allegory, applicability, aragorn, Denethor, J R R Tolkien, mcdonalds, mordor, Putin, Sauron, the lord of the rings, Tolkien and the Great War, Ukraine
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What I Read In January
This year’s pile of books got off to a promising start, and the ones I’ve read this month will set a high standard for the year. So, here they are, in order of reading. J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. Carl … Continue reading
PR
First, I’d like to wish you (both) a happy holiday. Second, I’d like to share with you my recent experiences promoting my latest book. My agent advised spending a chunk of advance on hiring a PR company for the US … Continue reading
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Launch
My latest book A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth has now come out in the US and Canada. Actually, it came out 17 days ago, and it’s available from St Martin’s Press and the proverbial All Good Bookstores, … Continue reading
