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Sep. 22nd, 2016 12:56 pmSpot the novel: a fictitious alien from a nineteen-forties sci-fi comic possesses the body of a dead junkie and constructs fearsome and effective alien weapons out of old transistor radios and torch batteries.
Not to keep you in suspense, the author was L P Davies, one of the unsung geniuses of British sf, and the book, "Psychogeist," was written in 1966. Davies died in 1988, having helped to shape my young writer's imagination via the local library, and his twenty-some novels are long out of print. Whether they would ever be reprinted now is a moot point, but I'd consider it unlikely; they are conventional of their time, and most of the significant characters are white, middle-class and male. I think that's a shame, because they are good stories backed by good ideas, and there are at least a dozen in the Wikipedia list I've never read and would like to.
Just thought I'd mention it.
Not to keep you in suspense, the author was L P Davies, one of the unsung geniuses of British sf, and the book, "Psychogeist," was written in 1966. Davies died in 1988, having helped to shape my young writer's imagination via the local library, and his twenty-some novels are long out of print. Whether they would ever be reprinted now is a moot point, but I'd consider it unlikely; they are conventional of their time, and most of the significant characters are white, middle-class and male. I think that's a shame, because they are good stories backed by good ideas, and there are at least a dozen in the Wikipedia list I've never read and would like to.
Just thought I'd mention it.