ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harry Adam Knight was the pseudonym of John Brosnan and Leroy Kettle.

 

John Brosnan (1947-2005) was born in Australia but lived most of his life in Britain. He published many books about movies and movie-making (including the particularly well-regarded Movie Magic, Future Tense and James Bond in the Cinema). Three of his horror books (Carnosaur, Slimer and Bedlam—the last two written with Leroy Kettle, all under the pseudonym Harry Adam Knight) were made into movies. Their most successful book was The Fungus. Two other horror books were published as by Simon Ian Childer, Tendrils (with Leroy) and Worm. And they published a collection of humorous pieces—well, they thought they were funny—called The Dirty Movie Book.

John also wrote several science fiction novels—the Skylords trilogy, The Opoponax Invasion and Mothership, as well as a range of SF thrillers such as Torched (with John Baxter) and Skyship and comic fantasy novels Damned and Fancy and Have Demon, Will Travel.

He wrote a much-liked column for the UK magazine Starburst and scripts for the comic 2000 AD, as well as a range of TV novelisations.

 

Leroy Kettle (born 1949) also published the science fiction conspiracy thriller Future Perfect in 2014 with Chris Evans and, before retirement, worked in the civil service as one of the principal architects of the UK’s Disability Discrimination Act.

Both John and Roy first started writing in SF fandom and published humorous fanzines which were enjoyed by the few people who read them.