Thanks to my wonderful agent Faye Webber; Andrew Pixley for the unearthing of unearthly treasures; Justin Richards and Albert DePetrillo for letting those deadlines whoosh by; Ed Victor for getting the sphere rollng; Ligeia Marsh who never stopped trying for me; Paul Vyse for startling work with his fingers; the NotPlayers, especially Neil Corry, for comradeship and testing; David S. Taylor of Bedfordshire; Ian Levine, his amazing animators and Ed Stradling for taking me back to January 1980; Charles Martin for his invaluable interview with Douglas; Kevin Davies for being brilliant as ever; Tom Spilsbury and Peter Ware at DWM for digging out the necessary; In-Vision magazine; Bex ‘Clare’ Levene for Cambridge detail; all at Balans in Chiswick, but especially Sean, David, Ben and Dylan ‘this is how you pronounce it’ Keightley; to Russell T Davies, Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Peter Harness and Steven Moffat, brothers in arms; to @pollyjanerocket for encouragement; and to Tom Baker, Lalla Ward and the cast and crew of the original TV production of Shada.
This book was written while listening to A Grounding in Numbers by Van Der Graaf Generator, Director’s Cut by Kate Bush, Clap Your Hands and Stamp Your Feet – The Best of Dutch Glam Rock, and the beautifully recreated incidental music from Douglas’s City of Death from Composer Who. You can find it on YouTube at http://youtu.be/aCnlyFm8nCI