This week, we welcome Alastair Chisholm - yes, only the brilliant, prolific, award-winning, award-nominated picturebook and middle grade author - to the podcast, and we hope you'll join us for the journey! Alastair has written about starships lost in space, about characters who can see back through time, about huge mecha-animals powered by human will, and - best of all - about ninja frogs, and that's just to name some of the books in his incredible back catalogue. Come with us as he takes us through the stories that have shaped him, and which continue to shape his world and his work.
Books mentioned in this week's episode include some of Alastair's own:
The Dragon Storm series, illustrated by Eric Deschamps
The Consequence Girl
Orion Lost
Adam-2
I Am Wolf
I Am Raven
And the stories which have shaped him include:
The Silmarillion, by JRR Tolkien
The Grey King, by Susan Cooper
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, by Alan Garner
Charmed Life, by Diana Wynne Jones
Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
Archer's Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones
Asterix, by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (et al)
The Eagle comic, founded by Marcus Morris
2000 AD, created by Kelvin Gosnell, Pat Mills, John Wagner
The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis
The work of Nicholas Fisk
The work of Jan Mark
The work of Isaac Asimov
The work of Robert Heinlein
The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison
The Best of Harry Harrison - short story anthology
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, by Stephen Donaldson
Zenith, by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (Alastair's edition has illustrations by CF Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard)
The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
The work of Sir Terry Pratchett
Legend, by David Gemmell
Master and Commander (series), by Patrick O'Brian
Sword of the Sun, by Sinéad O'Hart
The World Between the Rain, by Susan Cahill
Wren, by Lucy Hope
A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll
Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy, by Dashe Roberts
Bird Boy, by Catherine Bruton
Dungeon Runners, by Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd Stanton
The work of Christopher Edge
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