|
|
Post by dem bones on Aug 13, 2010 21:11:57 GMT
Christopher Hodder-Williams - Panic O'Clock (New English Library, August 1974) Blurb:
Diana Keeling is a woman who faces the world with practised equanimity, acting out the role of wife and mother on her neat estate to perfection. Then one day a cryptic, desperately urgent telephone call from her husband breaks the tenuous bubble of normality and the panic has begun...
Like lemmings the victims hurtle to their deaths; the situation is one which today belongs to science-fiction, but a madness, a topple into darkness could bring a situation of panic such as this into reality tomorrow.
Christopher Hodder-Williams is an accomplished writer who cleverly blends fact and fantasy into a book which is compulsively readable... and very frightening.having a number of novels and collections you're dying to get stuck into is a nice problem to have, and after today's visit to interzone the 'to be tackled with some urgency' pile just grew by one. Been after a copy of Panic O'Clock ever since Steve posted about it at the old place, mainly, it's true, for that glorious cover artwork by some time Terry Gilliam collaborator Lucinda Powell, though the blurb certainly isn't boring. Spookily, i'd just had a rematch with Richard Matheson's Lemmings before I set out. Panic O'Clock has been alluded to many times on the board, but i can't remember anyone saying they've read it? If you're taken by the cover artwork, you'll doubtless enjoy Franklin Marsh's mini-interview with Lucinda HERE
|
|
