James Follett
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James Follett (født i Tolworth, England i 1939) er en engelsk forfatter og manusforfatter. Han begynte å skrive på fulltid i 1976 da han sa opp jobben som teknisk skribent for det britiske forsvarsdepartementet. Han har siden skrevet over 20 romaner, flere tvdrama og mange radiodrama. Han er en av de 400 mest populære britiske forfatterne, målt etter antall bøker lånd fra offentlige biblioteker i Storbritannia.
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[rediger] Verk
[rediger] Romaner
- The Doomsday Ultimatum (1976)
- Crown Court (1977)
- Ice (1978)
- U-700 (1979), basert på radioteateretThe U-boat that lost its Nerve, i sin tur basert på en sann hendelse fra den annen verdenskrig.
- Churchill's Gold (1980)
- The Tiptoe Boys (1981)
- Earthsearch (1981) basert på radioteateret Earthsearch
- Deathship (1982) basert på radioteateret Earthsearch 2
- Dominator (1984)
- Swift (1985)
- A Cage Of Eagles (1987 ?)
- Mirage (1988)
- Torus (1990)
- Trojan (1991)
- Savant (1993)
- Mindwarp (1993), en prequel til radioteateret Earthsearch
- Those In Peril (1995)
- Sabre (1997)
- Second Atlantis (1998) (En revisjon av Ice)
- Temple of the Winds (2000)
- Wicca (2000)
- The Silent Vulcan (2002) hardback ISBN 0-7278-5712-6
- A Forest of Eagles (2004) hardback
- Return of the Eagles (2004) hardback
[rediger] Radio
(AT indicates the play was heard on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre, a 60-minute slot; JBM that it was in Radio 4's Just Before Midnight 15-minute slot, and SNT: Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre of 90 minutes.)
- Rules of Asylum (1973*, 90 minutes), Wiped by the BBC, but kept in the form of a domestic FM recording by Follett himself and subsequently rebroadcast on BBC 7 in three half-hour instalments.
- The Light of A Thousand Suns (1974*, SNT), a cold war techno-thriller set in 1995
- The Doppelganger Machine (1974, AT)
- Speculator Sport (1974, AT)
- The U-Boat That Lost Its Nerve (1975, SNT), a WWII historical drama regarding an informal trial of a German U-boat officer in a POW camp.
- The War in Secret (1975, 3 episodes of 45 mins)
- The Last Riot (1975, AT)
- Jumbo (1976, SNT)
- No Time on Our Side (1976, 60 mins)
- The Rabid Summer (1976, SNT)
- The Twisted Image (1977*, AT)
- The Spanish Package (1977, SNT)
- The War Behind the Wire (1977, 4 episodes of 45 mins)
- A Touch of Slander (1977, AT)
- The Destruction Factor -- The Seeds of Creation (1978*, SNT; a serial in 6 30-minute parts), ecological science fiction
- Vendetta for a Judge (1979, SNT)
- The Bionic Blob (1979, JBM)
- The Devil to Play (1979, JBM)
- The Bionic Blob and The Case of the Stolen Wavelengths (1979, JBM)
- Softly Steal the Hours to Dawn (1979, JBM)
- The Man Who Invented Yesterday (1980, JBM)
- The Long Lonely Voyage of U-396 (1980, SNT)
- Oboe at the Embassy (1980, AT)
- Earthsearch (1981*, 10 episoder på 30 minutter, oversatt til norsk av Jon Bing og sendt som radioteater på NRK første gang i 1983 under navnet Operasjon Jordsøk)
- Earthsearch II (1982*, 10 episoder på 30 minutter)
- A Darkening of the Moon (1986, SNT)
- Ice (1986*, SNT), based on the novel.
- Men, Martians and Machines (2003), a 3-hour career retrospective for BBC 7; named after a science-fiction novel by Eric Frank Russell that had fired Follett's imagination.
An asterisk * after the year means the play has so far been repeated on BBC7.
[rediger] Television
- Two episodes for the cult science-fiction TV series Blake's 7 - "Dawn of the Gods" and "Stardrive".
