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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.

Date: 2006-01-18 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hafren.livejournal.com
Oh excellent, and my son with a birthday in March. I shall order it at once!

Date: 2006-01-18 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Hurrah for birthday excuses! Hope you enjoy it!

Date: 2006-01-18 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Excellent! I'm off to order. I've been looking forward to this since you first posted about it.

Date: 2006-01-18 02:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gair.livejournal.com
Ooh, and it's only a tenner! (Have been looking up books I want to order for my new MA course in a few years, and most of them are £45- £75 gah academic publishing gah).

Date: 2006-01-18 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
All that yummy goodness, and it's cheap too!

Date: 2006-01-18 02:47 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-01-18 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com
Wheee!

Ten quid? I'll have one of those.

Date: 2006-01-18 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com
It just fell into my basket, guv.

Date: 2006-01-18 04:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] julesjones
Am annoyed. It may be only a tenner, but I bet I won't find it in the shops before I go back to the US on Saturday. (*And* I forgot to order Hafren's book in time to avoid having to pay international shipping.)

Date: 2006-01-18 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
:-( I saw a copy or two in FP in London, but apart from that, I've had no success in finding it in bookshops, including the Waterstones near Trafalgar Square.

Date: 2006-01-18 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matildabj.livejournal.com
Yay! I had no idea Andy Sawyer and David Seed had written chapters. Need to go order my copy, pronto!

Date: 2006-01-18 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Hope you enjoy it!

Date: 2006-01-18 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com
Whee! It must be nice to hold it in your hand.

Date: 2006-01-18 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Very satisfying! :-)

Date: 2006-01-18 06:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
Hey, how come I got this book in November, and they've only just sent out the contributors' copies?

Date: 2006-01-18 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I think the publisher didn't have an address to send my copy to.

Date: 2006-01-18 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com
I ordered it and the postage is less than the book (by over £2) so that's a bonus. :-P Greg will enjoy a lot of the articles too, esp the Prisoner one.

Date: 2006-01-18 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
the postage is less than the book (by over £2) so that's a bonus. :-P

Glad you got a bargain ;-D I've been dipping in and out of it today, there's a lot in it.

Date: 2006-01-19 11:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-wild-iris.livejournal.com
Congratulations! It must be wonderful to see it after all this time. And I must order a copy of the book - it sounds fascinating even apart from featuring your article.

Date: 2006-01-19 12:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I think it's come out really well. I'm part way through the article on Quatermass and it's researched in detail and well written. Good stuff.

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