British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide

[altariel]

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.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Oh excellent, and my son with a birthday in March. I shall order it at once!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for birthday excuses! Hope you enjoy it!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I'm off to order. I've been looking forward to this since you first posted about it.

[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).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

All that yummy goodness, and it's cheap too!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Enjoy!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Wheee!

Ten quid? I'll have one of those.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Bargain!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

It just fell into my basket, guv.

[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.)

[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.

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Yay! I had no idea Andy Sawyer and David Seed had written chapters. Need to go order my copy, pronto!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy it!

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Whee! It must be nice to hold it in your hand.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Very satisfying! :-)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Hey, how come I got this book in November, and they've only just sent out the contributors' copies?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think the publisher didn't have an address to send my copy to.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.