UPDATED!
I’m having a busy week for new releases, starting with an exciting new announcement featuring not one but two forthcoming tie-in novellas based on classic sci-fi TV shows…
Back in April I revealed I wrote a couple of comic strips for the 60th anniversary celebration of Stingray, the undersea adventure show created by Gerry Anderson – but that’s not the only Anderson-verse project I’ve been working on in 2024; as part of a new series of officially-licenced tie-in fiction, I have written The Armageddon Engine and Shadow Play, all-new stories based on my two favourite Anderson shows Space: 1999 and UFO.
UFO ran for a single season in the early 1970s, following the challenges faced by the members of SHADO, a covert agency charged with defending the Earth of 1980 against an insidious alien invasion; Space: 1999 ran for two seasons a few years later, centred on the adventures of the crew of Moonbase Alpha, who find themselves on an odyssey though the void when the Moon is blasted out of Earth’s orbit after a freak accident. To learn more about the shows, check out Anderson Entertainment’s primer videos for UFO and Space: 1999. Both were favourites of mine growing up, so it’s been a real thrill to be invited to create new stories in those worlds – details below!
Shadow Play and The Armageddon Engine will initially be released in limited-edition hardcover and paperback editions, and we hope to produce eBook and audiobook versions to follow in the near future. I’ve done my best to make these two stories feel as true to the source material as possible, and I hope readers and fans will enjoy them as much as I writing them!
Fittingly, there will be an exclusive debut of both novellas on September 13th, the same date the Moon is blown out of orbit in Space: 1999! You can pre-order signed hardcover editions of Space: 1999 – The Armageddon Engine and UFO – Shadow Play at these links, or a bundle collection of both books from the official Gerry Anderson shop; keep an eye on this blog and my social media for more details in the coming weeks…
