Jim Jupp drops by Derry & Toms to talk about his love of genre fiction, his path into making music as Belbury Poly, and the beginnings of Ghost Box Records, the label he founded with Julian House back in 2004. Books, electronic noises and the business of building strange worlds… all things that we love. … Continue reading Sorcery by The Belbury Poly – a conversation with Jim Jupp
The Prisoner – Part One
John returns to Derry & Toms as, following a drunken afternoon in Rochdale, we decided to take a look at Thomas M Disch's The Prisoner, the first of three Ace tie-in novels commissioned in 1969. Disch was a New Worlds ace and a perfect fit for Patrick McGoohan’s world of surveillance, sinister bureaucracy, paranoia, slippery … Continue reading The Prisoner – Part One
The Owlbear and the Wizard’s Staff 2026 – Con Reflections
This past weekend we had the pleasure of journeying down to Leamington Spa for our second trip to the long-running RPG con, The Owlbear and the Wizard's Staff. Created and facilitated by Matthew Broome, Owlbear has been going quite a few years now, but has only recently established itself as a must-attend fixture in our … Continue reading The Owlbear and the Wizard’s Staff 2026 – Con Reflections
The Distant Suns
Miles beams back into Derry & Toms from the Casual Trek transporter room so we can talk about Mike and James Cawthorn's (under pseudonym Philip James) 1969 JINO* tale, The Distant Suns. First serialised in The Illustrated Weekly of India in 1969 and later published by Unicorn SF and NEL in the 70s, it's a … Continue reading The Distant Suns
The Space Guardians
Mateo Latosa returns to Derry & Toms to follow up on our episode on The Powysverse of Space 1999 by digging into one of the original 1970s novelisations, The Space Guardians by prolific British SF author (and early New Worlds contributor) Brian Ball. We take a look at the episodes it adapted, and the work … Continue reading The Space Guardians
EVERDOOM (Moorcock & RPGs Part XI)
When I’m exposed to a new game like EVERDOOM, whose author, Tremor Pings, states that it is written by Moorcock Fans for Moorcock Fans... then I have to investigate further, because we're always in pursuit of that core question... what makes a game Moorcockian, and it turns out that Tremor has a great angle on … Continue reading EVERDOOM (Moorcock & RPGs Part XI)
The Silver Key & The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Allister is back in Derry & Toms to take a look at some Lovecraft. My choice, The Silver Key, and his... The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. The latter appears in Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn's Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, and may be the fifth on that hefty list that we've managed to cover … Continue reading The Silver Key & The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
AGENT OF CHAOS
Phil is back in Derry & Toms, and we're looking at another IP Spin-off. On this occasion, though, the Moorcock content is significant. Critical, in fact! We're talking about Kami Garcia's The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos. But why is Moorcock so integral to an X-Files prequel novel about 17-year-old Fox Mulder and his small … Continue reading AGENT OF CHAOS
Rolling in the Ruins Part Two – Last Rollers Standing
5 hours ago In June 2026 we hosted a couple of Moorcock-flavoured RPG days a fortnight apart here in Bradford. For more on how that came about, see part one.A lot of our fellow rollers made a weekend of it and stuck around on the Sunday mornings, allowing, for the first time, a more community-based … Continue reading Rolling in the Ruins Part Two – Last Rollers Standing
Rolling in the Ruins – Part One (Build it and they will come?)
After thinking about it for six years, we finally did it. We hosted a couple of days of Moorcock-flavoured gaming here in the heart of Bradford. And it is done. Stick a fork in it. But Phil and I had lots of thoughts about it that we wanted to record and share. Thoughts that would … Continue reading Rolling in the Ruins – Part One (Build it and they will come?)
