Christopher Hodder-Williams (1926–1995)
Auteur de A Fistful of Digits
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Christopher Hodder-Williams
The Futureworld Omnibus 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Hodder-Williams, John Christopher Glazebrook
- Date de naissance
- 1926-08-25
- Date de décès
- 1995-05-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Eton College
- Professions
- pianist
songwriter
novelist
pilot
composer - Organisations
- British Army (Royal Signals regiment)
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 240
- Popularité
- #94,569
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 21
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1
It's a nice piece of speculative fiction about the race to find the source of nuclear contamination of food in the United Kingdom, which is accidentally uncovered by a main who stores his photography paper in his wife's kitchen pantry. It just so happens that tins of baked beans were stacked on top of the paper - then when he went to use the paper he found exposure marks the exact size of the tins.
As the story unfolds the fictional Atomic Development Commission attempts to trace contamination and establish its source, and in doing so uncovers a large scale nuclear accident.
This was a good story written in the aftermath of Windscale when nuclear concerns about both civilian power, experimentation & atomic war were reaching their peak. It's certainly thought provoking in terms of the scale of problem that can unfold from a momentary straight forward error.… (plus d'informations)