Did anyone catch either the radio or TV adaptation of Dirk Gently? I somehow managed to miss both of them :( which is a shame, because I loved the books when I read them as a teenager. Unrelatedly... since Harry Potter went stratospheric, I'm surprised no one's tried adapting the Worst Witch books f...

I was a huge fan of Count Olaf from Lemony Snicket. He was larger than life, very funny, and relentlessly nasty in a buffoonish school bully kind of way.

Very interesting topic. I think the way you treat something has to be determined by its capacity to suffer. When it comes to artificial intelligence, we tend to talk about what a robot can "do" (i.e., show creativity, show emotion). This is the basis of the Turing Test. Say a robot is good...

I know it's a very trivial quibble, but to be honest, the thing that bothered me most about this book is how tenuous the title seemed! I don't think Holden would misremember the song lyric (he has "catch" instead of "meet") unless he was specifically thinking of "catch"...

Hi guys, I hope you don't mind me telling you about my book. It's called The Astronaut's Apprentice and was published last year. The story stars Bradley, who is a normal boy from Planet Earth. He lives on a farm, attends a normal school, and has a morbid fear that tentacles will start sprouting out ...

I think it's a fantastic gimmick (as the Guardian coverage suggests!) but I think you have to treat it as an interesting experiment rather than a new way forward for writing fiction. Sometimes not getting what you want is what keeps you interested. But, it will be fantastic to hear how this turns ou...