James Follett

James Follett (NB: not "Follet") is an author and screenwriter (born 1939). Born in Tollworth, England.

Follett became a full time writer in 1976, after resigning from the British Ministry of Defence, where he had worked as a technical author. He has since written over 20 novels, several television plays, and many radio dramas. He is one of the 100 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK.

Table of contents

1 Notable works 1.1 Novels 1.2 Radio 1.3 Television 1.4 Other Works 2 Also see

Notable works

Follet's works include:

Novels

• The Doomsday Ultimatum (1976)
• Crown Court (1977)
• Ice (1978)
• U-700 (1979), based on his radio play The U-boat that lost its Nerve, in turn based on a true story during World War II.
• Churchill's Gold (1980)
• The Tiptoe Boys (1981)
• Dominator (1984)
• Swift (1985)
• A Cage Of Eagles (1987 ?)
• Mirage (1988)
• Torus (1990)
• Trojan (1991)
• Savant (1993)
• Mindwarp (1993), a prequel to the radio drama Earthsearch
• Earthsearch (1981) based on his radio drama Earthsearch
• Deathship (1982) based on his radio drama Earthsearch 2
• Those In Peril (1995)
• Sabre (1997)
• Second Atlantis (1998)
• Temple of the Winds (2000)
• Wicca (2000)
• The Silent Vulcan (2002) hardback ISBN 0727857126

Radio

• The Rules of Asylum, 1973, originally a 90-minute play. Wiped by the BBC, but kept in the form of a domestic FM recording by Follett himself and subsequently broadcast on BBC 7 in three half-hour instalments.
• The Destruction Factor, an ecological science fiction series, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, last broadcast on BBC 7 in August 2003.
• Earthsearch, a cult science fiction drama, broadcast on Radio 4 in 1981 and rerun on BBC 7 in 2003.
• Earthsearch 2, broadcast 1982, also repeated on BBC 7 in 2003.
• Ice, a 90-minute Radio 4 play based on the novel.
• at least two 15-minute plays for Radio 4's "Just Before Midnight"

Television

• Two episodes for the cult Science Fiction TV series Blake's 7 - "Dawn of the Gods" and "Stardrive".

Other Works

• Starglider, a short science fiction work used as the basis for the Atari/ST and Amiga computer games of the same name.
• Tracker, a short science fiction work used as the basis for the 1988 Amiga computer game of the same name.

Also see

• List of novelists