Christopher Hodder-Williams

John Christopher Glazebrook Hodder-Williams (25 August 1926—15 May 1995) was an English writer, mainly of science fiction, but he wrote novels about aviation and espionage as well. Many of his books are early examples of what would later be called techno-thrillers.^[1] He also worked as a composer and lyricist.^[2][3]

Partial bibliography

Novels

• The Cummings Report (1957) originally published as by James Brogan
• Chain Reaction (1959)
• Final Approach (1960)
• Turbulence (1961)
• The Higher They Fly (1963)
• The Main Experiment (1964)
• The Egg-Shaped Thing (1966)
• Fistful of Digits (1968)
• 98.4 (1969) also published as Ninety-Eight Point Four
• The Mullenthorp Thing (1971)
• Panic O'Clock (1973)
• Coward's Paradise (1974)
• The Prayer Machine (1976)
• The Silent Voice (1977)
• The Thinktank That Leaked (1979)
• Chromosome Game (1984)

Teleplays

For Armchair Theatre

• The Ship That Couldn't Stop (1961)
• The Higher They Fly (1963)
• A Voice in the Sky (1965)

For the British television series Suspense

• The White Hot Coal (1962)

References

1. Interview in Science Fiction Weekly, Issue 343
2. Archived October 25, 2002 at the Wayback Machine
3. Crew list for The Tony Hancock Show

External resources

• Christopher Hodder-Williams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Christopher Hodder-Williams at the Internet Movie Database
• Obituary: Christopher Hodder-Williams from The Independent, 22 May 1995