James Follett

James Follett was an English author and screenwriter. Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the Ministry of Defence. He wrote over 20 novels, several television plays and many radio dramas.
He died in January 2021 at the age of 81.

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Works

Novels

The Doomsday Ultimatum Crown Court Ice U-700, 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 The Tiptoe Boys Earthsearch Deathship Dominator Swift. Set in 1996, it foresaw the proliferation of Mobile phonesA Cage of Eagles Mirage. A fictionalised account of the transfer of practically all documents and drawings of the Mirage III to the state of Israel during a temporary French arms embargo in the 1960s, through Sulzer Aircraft in Switzerland. These events led to the creation of the later IAI Kfir jet fighter in the 1970s.Torus Trojan. Set mainly in 1999, Trojan, predicted high-definition television, hard-drive video recording and keyboard-free touchpad computers.Savant Mindwarp Those in Peril Sabre Second Atlantis Temple of the Winds Wicca The Silent Vulcan A Forest of Eagles Return of the Eagles

''Hellborn''

Radio

Rules of Asylum, Wiped by the BBC, but kept in the form of a domestic FM recording by Follett himself and subsequently rebroadcast on BBC 7 and since 2011 on BBC Radio 4 Extra in three half-hour instalments.
The Light of A Thousand Suns, a Cold War techno-thriller set in 1995
The Doppelganger Machine
Speculator Sport
The U-Boat That Lost Its Nerve, a WWII historical drama regarding an informal trial of a German U-boat officer in a POW camp.
The War in Secret
The Last Riot
Jumbo
No Time on Our Side
The Rabid Summer
The Twisted Image
The Spanish Package
The War Behind the Wire
A Touch of Slander
The Destruction Factor
Vendetta for a Judge
The Bionic Blob
The Devil to Play
The Bionic Blob and The Case of the Stolen Wavelengths
Softly Steal the Hours to Dawn
The Man Who Invented Yesterday
The Long Lonely Voyage of U-395
Oboe at the Embassy
Earthsearch
Earthsearch II
A Darkening of the Moon
Ice, based on Follett's novel.Men, Martians and Machines. A three-hour career retrospective for BBC 7 named after the science fiction collection by Eric Frank Russell which had fired Follett's imagination.
Temple of the Winds
Wicca
Earthsearch Mindwarp

An asterisk * after the year means the play has been repeated on BBC7 and/or BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Television

Blake's 7 – "Dawn of the Gods" and "Stardrive"Knowhow Crown Court

''The Squad''

Other works

Starglider – a science fiction novella accompanying the 1986 computer game of the same name.Starglider 2 – a science fiction novella accompanying the 1988 computer game of the same name, a sequel to Starglider.Tracker – a science fiction novella accompanying the 1988 computer game of the same name.Lost Eden – a science fiction novella accompanying the 1995 computer game of the same name.