A bit of of a back-slap, this, but I think it’ll be interest to anyone who happens across this blog looking for our late sponsor.

I’ve just edited a book, available now from Amberley Publishing, in which the estimable and gentlemanly Alan Gallop tells the full story of the big man’s notorious Halloween ‘38 broadcast of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. It’s great fun – I’ve rattled through it a few times, obviously – and paints a believable picture of New Deal New York, and all those bold theatrical folk (incl. John Houseman and Marc Blitzstein) making experimental (& often Government-subsidised) drama for a mass audience.

A quick plug. Over at SF “Let’s Talk Sci-fi” X, I’ve been reviewing Stacey Abbott’s not-very-good The Cult TV Book. My other contributions to this hallowed organ of science fiction, however, are reserved for the print edition – the next issue of which is guest edited by one Terry Pratchett.