John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been
dubbed the ‘golden age of science fiction’. It was a wonderful decade
for science fiction, but not so great for young fans. With early
television broadcasts being advertised for the first time as ‘unsuitable
for children’ and the inescapable barrier of the ‘X’ certificate in the
cinema barring anyone under the age of sixteen, the author had only the
radio to fall back on – and that turned out to be more fertile for the
budding SF fan than might otherwise have been thought. Which is probably
why, as he grew older, rediscovering those old TV broadcasts and films
that had been out of bounds when he was a kid took on a lure that soon
became an obsession.
For him, the super-accuracy and amazing
technical quality of today’s science fiction films pale into
insignificance beside the radio, early TV and B-picture films about
people who built rockets in their back gardens and flew them to lost
planets, or tales of aliens who wanted to take over, if not our entire
world, then at least our bodies. This book is a personal account of John
Wade’s fascination with the genre across all the entertainment media in
which it appeared – the sort of stuff he reveled in as a young boy –
and still enjoys today.
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