British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide

My contributor's copy of British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide has just arrived in the post. It is a nice, chunky volume, just short of 300 pages, and on only a quick flick through it's going to be a good read.

My chapter is: "Resist the Host: Blake's 7 - a very British future". Other chapters are:

• "'Futures Past': an introduction to and brief survey of British science fiction television" by John R. Cook and Peter Wright


• "Quatermass and the origins of British television sf" by James Chapman


• "TARDIS at the OK Corral: Doctor Who and the USA" by Nicholas J. Cull


• "Countering the counterculture: The Prisoner and the 1960s" by Sue Short


• "The age of Aquarius: utopia and anti-utopia in late 1960s and early 1970s British science fiction television" by John R. Cook


• "The man who made Thunderbirds: an interview with Gerry Anderson" by Nicholas J. Cull


• "Everyday life in the post-catastrophe future: Terry Nation's Survivors" by Andy Sawyer


• "TV docudrama and the nuclear subject: The War Game, The Day After and Threads" by David Seed


• "Echoes of discontent: Conservative politics and Sapphire and Steel" by Peter Wright


• "Counterpointing the surrealism of the underlying metaphor in The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by M.J. Simpson


• "'OK, homeboys, let's posse!' Masculine anxiety, gender, race and class in Red Dwarf" by Elyce Rae Helford


• "British apocalypses now - or then? The Uninvited, Invasion: Earth and The Last Train" by Catriona Miller

The articles are arranged chronologically, so it's a very comprehensive account of British TVSF from Nigel Kneale to just before new Doctor Who.