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Post by vaughan on Jun 28, 2009 19:31:42 GMT
This is my introduction to Lymington. I know he wrote "Night of the Big Heat", and I love the movie version, but this is my first experience reading his work directly. As noted elsewhere I bought three of his books at the same time. What I expected was a 50's movie Sci-Fi experience (based largely on Night of the Big Heat) and to be perfectly honest I wasn't disappointed. The Coming of Strangers tells the tale of strange crustaceans, rising from the sea in a small seaside town. Invisible they can't be seen, but they kind of give themselves away by tearing off the head of a homeless men....... The beauty of this one is that, as eagerly anticipated, you can easily visualized the movie that never was. Black and white, 4:3, Arthur Crabtree directing, and Marshall Thompson playing the lead, John Sabastian. Oh the joy of having a 'minds eye'! It's short - 142 pages of a story where not too much actually happens - but it's the expectation that gets you. Yeah, just like those old movies. The writing is arcane, and takes in the jargon of the 60's, but that's easily forgotten and passed over - it WAS written in the 60's after all. The one and only down point..... I bought this second hand, and one page is missing! damn. Torn out..... Still, I won't let that spoil what was, after all, good entertainment. I bought two other titles of Lymington's, and I'll get to them soon I think. Next up I'm going with a different author, but if you're into the 50's Sci-Fi movie cycle, then this is essential stuff (not that I'm telling anyone here anything about these writers - you know it already!!!) |
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