Tag: Terry Nation

Blake’s 7: The Way Back and Cygnus Alpha

Blake’s 7: The Way Back and Cygnus Alpha

by Trevor Hoyle (BBC Audio, 2010)

[first published as Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 by Sphere, 1977]

{Read by Gareth Thomas and Paul Darrow, respectively}

Hoyle_Blakes 7

A slavish and perfunctory novelisation of the first four episodes of Terry Nation’s dystopian space opera, its cult appeal lent a smidgeon of additional credibility in audio form by the narrative voices of series actors Gareth Thomas (Blake) and Paul Darrow (Avon).

 

The Man Who Invented the Daleks

The Man Who Invented the Daleks: The Strange Worlds of Terry Nation

by Alwyn W. Turner (Aurum, 2011)

Turner_The Man Who Invented the Daleks

Turner exhaustively researches Terry Nation’s life, shows how the Daleks developed both along- and inside British culture of the 60s and 70s, and contextualises the infamous pepperpots within the broader scope of Nation’s work, from which scrutiny their creator emerges somewhat diminished.

Derelict Space Sheep