John Lymington (1911–1983)
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Œuvres de John Lymington
The Dangerous Road 2 exemplaires
The Grey Ones A Sword Above the Night 1 exemplaire
The Black Ghosts 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Chance, John Richard Newton
- Autres noms
- Chance, John Newton
Chance, Jonathan
Drummond, John
Newton, David C - Date de naissance
- 1911-04-21
- Date de décès
- 1983-08-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Streatham Hill, Lambeth, London, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK
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Night of the Big Heat par John Lymington
Published in 1960, this would make a good 90 min. TV space-invasion movie. Small town on a small British island. You never confront the aliens and you don't know their particulars, but you do know that they are slowiy raising the Earth's temperature and inspiring much instinctive soul searching amongst the locals. And an ending similar to "The War of the Worlds". The tension comes from not knowing what/when/where/why....and the heat. It' a quick and mildly entertaining treat.
½
So I bought this at a charity auction for Bubonicon* many years ago, and though I read it, I still couldn't really tell you what it's about.
*This book has been used for raising money for charity at Bubonicon for a long time and is full of written comments on everything from the prose to the plot (or lack thereof) as well as syntax, sentence structure and its various other literary, erm, merits.
*This book has been used for raising money for charity at Bubonicon for a long time and is full of written comments on everything from the prose to the plot (or lack thereof) as well as syntax, sentence structure and its various other literary, erm, merits.
This is my second book by John Lymington. I have a third, "The Giant Stumbles" but I will not bother. His books are just bad.
I believe it would help if I was an Englishman of the 1960s but perhaps not. In full disclosure I am an American whom has lived in England for 15 years and I do appreciate that the themes of his writing are/were appealing to a segment the English populace. I doubt his brand of SF had any success on the American side of the pond in the 1960s.
This book is the typical neighborhood gossip, trash that titillated the bored 1960s English housewife. The man rides the train to work. His childless wife, which shares his little semi-detached house, is unhappy, running away and suspects he is gay. The Neighbor wives want affairs and if the man says no then he must be gay. Just throw in an a world wide disaster and you get a John Lymington SF book.… (plus d'informations)
I believe it would help if I was an Englishman of the 1960s but perhaps not. In full disclosure I am an American whom has lived in England for 15 years and I do appreciate that the themes of his writing are/were appealing to a segment the English populace. I doubt his brand of SF had any success on the American side of the pond in the 1960s.
This book is the typical neighborhood gossip, trash that titillated the bored 1960s English housewife. The man rides the train to work. His childless wife, which shares his little semi-detached house, is unhappy, running away and suspects he is gay. The Neighbor wives want affairs and if the man says no then he must be gay. Just throw in an a world wide disaster and you get a John Lymington SF book.… (plus d'informations)
Typical 50s-60s SF but from a very British view point. This author has written other SF books but I'm not looking for them at this time. I'll give him another chance once I forget this book. With a few exceptions the better Classic SF authors were American.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 30
- Membres
- 410
- Popularité
- #59,368
- Évaluation
- 2.6
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 1