James Follett
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James Follett (NB: not "Follet") is an author and screenwriter (born 1939). Born in Tolworth, England.
Follett became a full time writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work for the British Ministry of Defence, where he had worked as a technical author. 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.
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Notable works
Follet's works include:
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 0727857126
- A Forest of Eagles (2004) hardback
- Return of the Eagles (2004) hardback
Radio
- The Rules of Asylum 1973, a political thriller set in a communist country. Originally a 90-minute play. Wiped by the BBC, but kept in the form of a domestic FM recording by Follett himself and subsequently broadcast on BBC 7 in three half-hour instalments.
- The Light of a Thousand Suns 1974, a cold war techno-thriller set in 1995. Repeated on BBC 7 in 2005.
- The Destruction Factor, an ecological science fiction series, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, last broadcast on BBC 7 in August 2003.
- Earthsearch, a cult science fiction drama, broadcast on Radio 4 in 1981 and rerun on BBC 7 in 2003 and 2004.
- Earthsearch 2, broadcast 1982, also repeated on BBC 7 in 2003 and 2004.
- Ice, a 90-minute Radio 4 play based on the novel. Repeated on BBC 7 in 2005.
- at least two 15-minute plays for Radio 4's "Just Before Midnight"
- Men, Martians and Machines, a 3-hour career retrospective for BBC 7; named after a science fiction novel by Eric Frank Russell.
Television
- Two episodes for the cult Science Fiction TV series Blake's 7 - "Dawn of the Gods" and "Stardrive".
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.
See also
External link
An unofficial James Follett website (http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk/)