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M. J. Simpson

Simpson, Michael John

February 17, 1968 (age 58)

Birth place: Basford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

54 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
October 1989 18 Essay Car Con London, 20th August 1989 Matrix, #84
December 1990 16 Essay Spend Five Days Sitting Behind a Table for Less Than £400 Matrix, #91
August 1991 21 Essay Review of the cartoon series 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' Matrix, #95
August 1991 20 Essay The Annie Nightingale Request Show SciFi Special Matrix, #95
April 1992 13 Essay At Last, a New Star Wars Film! (Nearly) Matrix, #99
April 1992 11 Essay Inconsequential Matrix, #99
June 1995 86|86.4 Review Ships of Merior SFX, June 1995
July 1995 14 Essay 58 Days and Counting ... SFX, #2
July 1995 94 Review Ed Wood SFX, #2
July 1995 105 Essay Fantastic Cinema: The 5th Derby Film Festival, Derby 5-14 May SFX, #2
July 1995 84 Essay Killer B's: New Additions to First Class Films' Less-Than-Classic Series ... SFX, #2
July 1995 83 Essay Review of the film 'Alien Nation: Dark Horizon' by Kenneth Johnson SFX, #2
July 1995 86 Essay Review of the film 'Casino Royale' by William H. Brown SFX, #2
July 1995 76 Essay Review of the film 'Ed Wood' by Tim Burton SFX, #2
July 1995 86 Essay Review of the film 'Freaked' by Alex Winter & Tom Stern SFX, #2
July 1995 83 Essay Review of the film 'Stargate' by Roland Emmerich SFX, #2
July 1995 87 Essay Review of the film 'The Guyver: Dark Hero' by Steve Wang SFX, #2
July 1995 80 Essay Review of the TV series 'The Munsters' SFX, #2
July 1995 94 Review Ronan the Barbarian SFX, #2
July 1995 85 Essay So Bad It's Good: The Films of Ed Wood SFX, #2
August 1995 53 Essay Harry, the Galactic Hero SFX, #3
August 1995 72 Essay Review of the film 'Batman Forever' by Joel Schumacher SFX, #3
August 1995 89 Essay Review of the first 6 episodes of the TV series 'One Step Beyond' by John Newland SFX, #3
August 1995 104 Essay Sol III, Norbreck Castle Hotel, Blackpool 26-29 May 1995 SFX, #3
August 1995 92 Review The Vampire Omnibus SFX, #3
September 1995 16 Essay Mojo Rising SFX, #4
September 1995 82 Essay Review of the film '13 Cold Blooded Eagles' by Choy Fat SFX, #4
September 1995 72 Essay Review of the film 'Apollo 13' by Ron Howard SFX, #4
September 1995 82 Essay Review of the film 'Casper the Friendly Ghost' by I. Sparber & Seymour Kneitel SFX, #4
September 1995 83 Essay Review of the film 'Dracula Has Risen from the Grave' by Freddie Francis SFX, #4
September 1995 85 Essay Review of the film 'Shrunken Heads' by Richard Elfman SFX, #4
September 1995 85 Essay Review of the film 'Soylent Green' by Richard Fleischer SFX, #4
September 1995 72 Essay Review of the film 'The City of Lost Children' by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro SFX, #4
September 1995 85 Essay Review of the film 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' by Alan Gibson SFX, #4
September 1995 76 Essay Review of the TV series 'Mork & Mindy' SFX, #4
October 1995 5 Essay "So, a Brit Actually Won Something ...?" SFX, #5
October 1995 59 Interview Brian Aldiss SFX, #5
October 1995 68 Essay Intersection: Worldcon '95 SFX, #5
October 1995 90 Essay Review of four episodes of the original TV series 'The Outer Limits' SFX, #5
October 1995 89 Essay Review of the 1950s films 'Corridors of Blood', 'First Man Into Space', 'The Brain' and 'The Atomic Submarine' SFX, #5
October 1995 86 Essay Review of the film 'Body Bags' by John Carpenter SFX, #5
October 1995 87 Essay Review of the film 'Curse of the Werewolf' by Terence Fisher SFX, #5
October 1995 82 Essay Review of the TV series 'Fantomcat' SFX, #5
October 1995 16 Essay So, Who Is ... Boris Vallejo? SFX, #5
October 1995 94 Review The Edge of Human SFX, #5
October 1995 95 Review The Garden of Unearthly Delights SFX, #5
October 1995 95 Review The Secret of This Book SFX, #5
June 1996 80 Essay Letter (Locus #425) Locus, #425 June 1996
July 1996 82 Review Clipjoint SFX, July 1996
October 1996 52 Essay Letter (Science Fiction Chronicle #190) Science Fiction Chronicle, #190 October 1996
July 2001 18 Review Hitchhiker's Guide Vector 218
May 2003 29 Review Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams Vector 229
May 2004 35 Review Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams Vector 235
November 2004 140|140.1 Essay Letter (Analog, November 2004) Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2004

2 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2001 Nonfiction Hitchhiker's Guide M. J. Simpson
2003 Nonfiction Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams M. J. Simpson

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2003 British Science Fiction Award Best Non-Fiction Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams Nominee
2004 Locus Poll Award Best Non-Fiction/Art Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams Finalist

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