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Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Nigel Kneale - Behind the Dark Door
This interview might prove a valuable resource to science fiction aficionados, or interesting to fans of quality television drama. It provides insight into the mind of Nigel Kneale.
Nigel Kneale has stated on many occasions that he is not a science-fiction writer, but a drama writer who uses science-fiction as a vehicle for his plays and serials. Nevertheless he created three of the basic forms of telefantasy in his serials with Quatermass in the Fifties: the mutation of a man into monster, an organised invasion by stealth, and the coupling of science-fiction with mysticism. On top of this, he has also written some of the best one off plays in the genre.
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