He also introduced me to Stranger in a Strange Land. Ah! Now this was more like it! I loved it. It was about a guy who makes decisions on the roll of a die. But John persevered and passed on his copy of Luke Rheinhardt’s The Diceman. ![]() Once again, I tried, but again they didn’t do much for me and-after getting about a third of the way through The Hobbit, I gave up. John had taken several days off work to read them cover to cover. One was The Hobbit, followed by The Lord of the Rings. John went on to introduce me to other books that he said were essential reading. But favourite films included Fahrenheit 451, Privilege, and Clockwork Orange. I don’t recall liking any TV science fiction. He assured me I would like it ,and I think I tried, and enjoyed it. We had just finished work and John was mad keen for us to get home in time to watch Star Trek, of which he was a big fan. ![]() John Wagner and I both worked on the editorial side of Romeo, a teenage romantic weekly and one of numerous publications produced by DC Thomson’s, the great powerhouse of British comics. Actually, the story probably begins a few months earlier, on a bus going up the Lochee Road in Dundee, heading for the tenement flat where I lived with my young family.
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