James Follett

James Follett
Born 1939 (age 7677)
Tolworth, England
Occupation Writer
Nationality British
Genre Science Fiction
Website
www.james-follett.co.uk/index.html

James Follett (born 1939 in Tolworth, England) is an author and screenwriter.

Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has since written over 20 novels, several television plays, and many radio dramas. He is one of the 400 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK.

Works

Follett's works include:

Novels

Radio

(AT indicates the play was heard on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre, a 60-minute slot; JBM that it was in Radio 4's Just Before Midnight 15-minute slot, and SNT: Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre of 90 minutes.)

An asterisk * after the year means the play has been repeated on BBC7.

Television

Other works

Injury repaired after 49 years

Follett wrote on Usenet in 2002:[5]

Fifty years ago, in 1952, at the age of 12, I was in the capable hands of a Mr Harold Ridley, an extremely kindly ophthalmic surgeon who saved my right eye following an accident that cost me my left eye. The lens had to [be] removed (needled) to prevent infection spreading. His parting words to me all those years ago were: "Come back in 20-years and we might be able to put an artificial lens in your left eye." I went back in the 1960s and got much the same answer from Mr Ridley's successor: "Sorry – not enough tissue to anchor a lens in place. Come back in 20 years."
Last year my vision started clouding in my good eye so I hot-footed to London and got to see the one man who's been working near miracles at Moorfields. To my astonishment, he was prepared to tackle my defunct left eye on the grounds that it had been pretty useless for half a century therefore nothing would be lost if a lens implant operation went pear-shaped.

He went on to say that they had had to place the lens in front of the pupil, but it worked, and the cataract in his right eye had also been repaired.

See also

External links

References

  1. WorldCat item record
  2. WorldCat
  3. An entry at OpenLibrary (which does not describe it per se) does exhibit an apparent front-cover-image bearing his name, its title, and "His Breathtaking New Thriller".
  4. An Amazon page includes an unattributed three-sentence summary that includes "... the Iraqi tank which survived the West's most formidable weaponry."
  5. A posting in alt.usage.english
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