andrewoldham
Andrew Oldham is a writer, poet, academic and journalist, his credits range from BBC North to the Independent Sector (Stage and Page). His workshops, interviews and reviews have been broadcast on radio and television. During the 90s he was a regular contributor on music scene as a journalist, performance poet and musician, he was part of Bongo Sherbert & The Electrified Yeti Wobblers (voted the second worst band name in the mid-90s by Making Music and known for their rendition of the Wok Song). He went on to play keyboards for HB Pencils and the Pritt Stick Addicts and the triad dance group, PsychoBilly (with underground hits, such as, Screaming at the Sun, All Loose and Floppy and The Weekenders). Andrew now writes fiction and non-fiction, he edits and promotes on the Literature & Arts scene for local and national publications and organisations. He is the Managing Editor for Incorporating Writing ( ISSN 1743-0380 ) and the Prose Editor for Red Ink (ISSN 1751-1496) and the founder of Incwriters. www.andrewoldham.co.uk
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Posted on Tue, 2007-05-29 14:33
Day of the Triffids
It's a good novel but it is rather cosy, I mean this in the fact that the protagonist ends up on the Isle of Wight, very cosy. It is a frightening book but many miss Wyndham's humour, the very fact that he was satirising the cosy nature of UK SF, something that has been apparent in UK SF since Wells. Like Wells, he was literally tearing to pieces the cosy UK, by destroying small towns and make the last bastion of humanity, humanity last chance being the Isle of Wight. Very funny. But we miss that. To some extent we project on it a modern reading, as does the 80s TV programme, mired in cold war fears - it's interesting how SF is one of the few genres where the reader can place a modern social model on to it.
Day of the Triffids