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The way the series was done there would be no point in doing separate episodes on individuals. The point was to highlight a commonality between different books/writers/series within one genre. The problem with the fantasy programme was that they tried to drag in a lot of stuff that doesn't fit...

It was hard deciding whether this belongs here or in the TV discussion board. The BBC have been running a short series in which a political journalist explains the rules behind the writing of certain fiction sub-genre. Sandwiched between last week's detectives and next week's spies comes...

I don't know if this helps at all but there's a map at The London Bookshop Map - 118 Independent Bookshops It's years since I last went to London but there always used to be a lot of really crappy bookshops around Tottenham Court Road/Charing Cross Road/Soho. I even remember one that had all...

Like so many others, I don't remember what books I read first. More than half a century has passed since and my memory isn't that good. I'm pretty sure I could read novels before I started school because I have vague memories of him taking me to buy my own books before we moved to Birmingham (I...

Curious about all this watching what people do phenomena. Around here there are two neighbourhoods side to side. One has some political power - enough to have a ring of CCTV cameras removed because they thought it was the worst kind of government intrusion. The oddity is that the cameras were...

It was very loosely based on a character from a series of books dating from the 30s-60s The Biggles Information Web Site . As far as I know they never did touch on SF/Fantasy although it did drift into detective novels on occasion.

A couple that haven't come up yet Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel One of those time travel stories that has characters watching later/earlier versions of themselves. All takes place in a pub. Cockneys vs Zombies Extremely silly Gangsters and OAPs fight their way out of London when...

Try The Explorer - James Smythe. That fits with the story. There is a sequel I haven't read called The Echo. They're listed as parts of "The Anomaly Quartet".

If you're dragging in the online market, http://freesfonline.de/ is worth a mention. Infinity plus is still out there. .. and there are the versions of gutenberg.

Hawker & Boon (The Somnambulist/ Domino Men)

Surprising that the article doesn't mention the previous radio version - also a BBC production. Given the name of the production company (Bad Wolf) are they something to do with the old Dr Who series?

Given the Ghibli clue, I'm surprised no-one has browsed through the sources of those movies. I don't know most of them but there's always Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's moving castle) or Mary Norton (The Borrowers rewritten as Arrietty). You might be able to find some other names in the credits. I...

The problem with the original version of the 1001 nights is that they did get a little too adult at times. Be careful and read the material before you read it to your 6 year old. Some of the material from the late victorian period would work well - search Gutenberg for Andrew Lang for the...

Ran McCarthy Novelist on Google. Most results are Cormac, Tom comes up on page 1, Mary on page 3.

Plagiarism isn't what it was. There's an argument to say that all of the above are guilty of plagiarism, lifting scenes or plot lines from previously published (filmed) works. I read LOTR too young to spot most of the lifts from other works. The only one that stuck long enough was the MacBeth...

Two things should be taken as balance. One is age. It's often said that the best for most people is whatever happened in their early teens. So there's always going to be a bias towards what was there when you were that age and the revival of that style (if relevant). The second distortion is the...

I think I've done this before. Signed copies mean most to me when there's something more to it than that. Like the writer that also does little illustrations for her books and puts in the extra one with the signature, or the signed copy that has a different name on the cover, or the book with...

Eddison and Dunsany have been reprinted in the "Fantasy Masterworks" series although I'd never seen Dunsany in print before and Eddison seemed to have been out of print since the 70s. White seems to do better, possibly because of the Disney film, although I get the feeling "Once and Future...

I'm sure I read a lot when young although I probably don't remember all of the stuff that I did read. It was never one particular genre. A lot of it didn't really belong to any particular label. Certainly a lot of what I read and saw on TV and in the movies was SF/Fantasy. I worked through the...

Aside from the film/novel/comic book categories all of this is small press. Chance are most people outside the BFS would not have heard of these publications. This has been the case for as long as these awards have been going. They have had a problem previously with the judges for the initial...