Cheek, Patrick.
Mind you, going back to just after Fudge, I find 1950s Brit sci-fi
quite enjoyable because it is so clearly second-rate no-one can
possibly pretend otherwise. It creaks, it feels like a tin-can hurled
into space. I don't mind junk as long as no-one's trying to con me
into thinking it other than it is. BBC7 has broadcast a lot of
archived stuff over the last few years: 'Journey into Space' etc.
2008/6/3 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Trust you to know Roger I thought that perhaps old Bircumshaw might have
> seen the originals in his local newspaper
> Cheers P
> Ps don't tell any-one but I recently (my first over the web purchase a copy
> of the reprint 'Fudge and the dragon'1981 (I pretend it is for the grandkids
> but of course I had to read it first !
> -and it is one of those real books where you get at the beginning -'This
> Book Belongs to'-with a smashing picture
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Roger Collett
> Sent: 03 June 2008 17:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Should poetry be regarded as punishment
>
> Ahh! Yes. "Fudge's trip to the moon" was published in 1947 by University of
> London Press and
> republished in 1979 by Big "O" Publishing. Out of print now though patrick.
> I take it yours was
> one of the 1947 issue.
>
> Roger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Should poetry be regarded as punishment
>
>
>> Trouble for me here is that I have been reading SF/fantasy so long a vast
>> for me wonderful trip -if I started I would ramble on all day perhaps the
>> earliest was Ken Reid 'Fudges trip to the moon' which nobody has heard of
>> (it also had lot's of pictures!!!I believe that I have one of the only
>> copies still around
>> Cheers campers P
>>
>
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David Bircumshaw
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