Survivors by Terry Nation

Uneven, but compelling. Horrifically dated until the apocalypse strikes, then horrifically prescient. Full review to follow on www.davidmoody.net shortly. Update - here's my take on the book: [URL not allowed]......more

Whilst the recent TV series is clearly based on this novel - several of the main characters are there, as are key episodes - it has its own pace and scale. The onset and aftermath of the Death are well delivered, to the extent that we as quickly become innured to the scale of the morbidity as do the......more

God, this was boring. I don’t remember actually being bored reading it, but the fact that I can’t remember anything about the plot, characters or style really speaks volumes about the author’s level of penmanship. Terry Nation is a TV writer, and I’m sure he is very good at his day-job (he invented t......more

Terry Nation's tie-in novel from 1976, linked to the 1st season of the TV show he created. To get round various legal issues the 2008 remake was billed as based on this book, rather than a remake of the TV series, but I never saw that adaptation so I dunno about it. I have seem all of the 70s versio......more

Terry Nation holds a special place in my heart--Daleks! But his book just didn't do it for me. There was some good philosophical discussion about what the world would be like if most of us died. And, granted, it doesn't fall back on a lot of the post-apocalyptic tropes (probably because it was writt......more