Post by David A McInteeFunnily enough, I've just signed to write a nonfiction book about Quatermass
next...
okay!
I have been reading a great book on Nigel Kneale's writing career and
enjoying it tremendously for my exploration of the creative language of
Alien, I was so intuitively sure that Quatermass And The Pit served as
some kind of inspiration for Alien and it turned out to correct as far
as O'Bannon was concerned when he was interviewed for the book. For it
me was a revelation to find out about the mind of the writer. In some
ways, I almost find an urge to compare something of the impact of his
earlier work on my mind to that of the painter Francis Bacon, and also
the fussiness of some of his criticisms about thing seemed to send
echoes of something that I had read in Francis Bacon interviews.
I'm going to have to start writing to sci-fi magazines tomorrow to
print photos of Christine Finn from the 50s. It's a pity that she never
did any sexy publicity stills for today's scifi mags to stick on the
magazine covers
Dom