A Day for Tigers
Published on 1. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-0-9930424-3-0 (ISBN)
Description
...it's 1955 and you've just moved house. You go to the local newspaper shop for your 'Beano' and find they have a rack filled with 'Astounding Science Fiction', 'Weird Fantasy', 'Wonder Stories', 'Mandrake the Magician', and 'Green Lantern'.
To top it all, they have 'The Eagle', with its sensational Frank Hampson illustrations of 'Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'.
These comics showed me that Life Has No Boundaries, and set my imagination free and on fire.
To mention only the magazines is to deny the influence that 'Flash Gordon' had when, for the princely sum of three pence, my mother took me to the Church Hall film show across the road and left me for an hour to soak up the spectacle of flashing, smoking, sparkling spaceships dodging Emperor Ming's Death Beams to rescue Dale Arden, with the help of strange men in tights.
Sci-Fi, I Love You. There. I've said it.
And now there's no going back.
In this book I have tried to recreate the sense of discovery that I felt when I first encountered it so if, like me, you are still seven at heart and also, like me, still in love with the Golden Age of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, I hope you find that heart again within these pages.
Bill Allerton
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
321 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9930424-3-0 (9780993042430)
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Bill Allerton lives and works in Sheffield UK. His partner, Bryony Doran, is also a prize-winning author. Bill retired from a successful business to write for a living, but mostly that's become 'living to write', given that so few authors actually make it to the megabucks stage. During his working life Bill has had many occupations, giving him a broad experience from which to draw new lines for his characters, so if you feel that you know them... perhaps you do... perhaps it's you...His influences are: Ray Bradbury, Malcolm Lowry, Herman Melville, Thomas Pynchon, Arthur C. Clarke, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, Keith Waterhouse and Spike Milligan. Prizes: Fish Prize 2001 (Story anthologised and attended West Cork Literary Festival to read his submission 'To Kill a Wish')Chesterfield Pomegranate Theatre: New Playwright Awards'To Kill a Wish', the Fish Prize story, reworked for the stage and performed live.BBC Radio Sheffield: Six pieces of short fiction recorded and broadcast.Past Mentors (at least a week in the company of each)Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Bernadine Evaristo, Ruth Padel, Peter Sansom, Berlie DohertyNoted writers he has worked with closely in the publishing of an anthology of short fiction ('Watch & Wait', 2014) on behalf of The Lymphoma Association.Ian McMillan, Marina Lewycka, Bryony Doran, Susan Elliott Wright, Berlie Doherty, Angela Robson, Judith Allnatt, Danuta Reah, Lesley Glaister, Caroline Pitcher, Kirstin Zhang, Henry Shukman, David Swann and Jemma Kennedy among others.