After a gloomy first few months of the year, wholesome rays of sunshine are breaking through the bruised skies and lifting moods across the land. Or here in Derry and Toms certainly.As the fug ascends, I've been deep into my musical backlog of bandcamp pickups and vinyl deliveries. First up, Jim Jupp's Ghost Box Records … Continue reading Entropic State Report 16th May 2024 →

Join my co-conspirator John and me as we board the Civil Administration ship London where our brutally oppressive crew sets the speed to Time Distort 5 and makes for Cygnus Alpha where we will all suffer for our crimes! En route, we'll have plenty of time (between beatings and summary executions) to discuss Trevor Hoyle's novelisation of the … Continue reading Blake’s 7 by Trevor Hoyle →

Andy Darby is back in Derry and Toms to talk about his all-new novel, The Blade in the Angel's Shadow!Enochian madness, brutal sieges, swordplay and the machinations of the Elizabethan court all combine to give our heroine a hard time, some gnarly powers and a profound ethical dilemma.It's available from all good stockists now...

Andrew Nette returns to Derry and Toms as we continue to muse over some formative telly, novelisations and other stuff but on this occasion to talk about Nigel Kneale's enduring and iconic character Professor Bernard Quatermass (and a load of other digressions, naturally, including brief musings on a favourite mercenary war flick). We roam around … Continue reading QUATERMASS →

The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Whelan Loz returns to Derry & Toms to talk about the remaining tales we haven't covered that complete The Weird of the White Wolf.  Elric tests some early chat-up lines in While the Gods Laugh, Moonglum finally shows up in The Singing Citadel and Loz bares all … Continue reading The Weird of the White Wolf →

Here we are in March and the schedule is hotting up. As of yesterday, we have three episodes in the can queued for editing and many more on the itinerary.Yesterday I recorded with Andrew Nette for the third time and it's always a pleasure Andrew, particularly when you tell me it's a balmy evening down … Continue reading Entropic State Report 12th March 2024 →

Derek AKA Imrryr returns to Derry and Toms to talk about fellow New Yorker Robert Sheckley, the late master of SF satire and absurdist parables, and his rather unusual and wigged-out 1975 opus... Options. Spoiler... it's out there... AND I LOVE IT! All of the Imrryr catalogue is available via Bandcamp, including merch, and when … Continue reading OPTIONS by Robert Sheckley →

This week the podcast passed 100k downloads on Podbean, a momentous occasion worthy of celebration here at D&Ts. We've been going just about four and a half years, give or take a few weeks, and we have no intentions of slowing down. There are two episodes in the can for editing and they will be … Continue reading Entropic State Report 11th February 2024 →