James Follett
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James Follett (not "Follet") is an author and screenwriter, born in 1939 in Tolworth, England.
Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has since written over 20 novels, several television plays, and many radio dramas. He is one of the 400 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK.
He is apparently a prolific poster on Usenet News Groups and the interested reader is directed to those posts, a first-hand source, as the best possible information on him.
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[edit] Works
Follett's works include:
[edit] Novels
- The Doomsday Ultimatum (1976)
- Crown Court (1977)
- Ice (1978)
- U-700 (1979), based on his radio play The U-boat that lost its Nerve, in turn based on a true story during World War II.
- Churchill's Gold (1980)
- The Tiptoe Boys (1981)
- Earthsearch (1981) based on his radio drama Earthsearch
- Deathship (1982) based on his radio drama Earthsearch 2
- Dominator (1984)
- Swift (1985)
- A Cage Of Eagles (1987 ?)
- Mirage (1988)
- Torus (1990)
- Trojan (1991)
- Savant (1993)
- Mindwarp (1993), a prequel to the radio drama Earthsearch
- Those In Peril (1995)
- Sabre (1997)
- Second Atlantis (1998) (A revision of 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
[edit] 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 episodes of 30 mins)
- Earthsearch II (1982*, 10 episodes of 30 mins)
- 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.
[edit] Television
- Two episodes for the cult science-fiction TV series Blake's 7 - "Dawn of the Gods" and "Stardrive".
[edit] Other works
- Starglider, a short science-fiction work used as the basis for the Atari/ST and Amiga computer games of the same name.
- Tracker, a short science fiction work used as the basis for the 1988 Amiga computer game of the same name.
