I’ve got a little list – of 20 big influences

Some things in life stick with you, and shape the person you become, or in my case, the writer I’ve become. I can see influences from all of these things – and many others – coming through in my writing. Not all at the same time, although that would be interesting, but more than one at a time certainly, melding into weird combinations, some of which work better than others. Here they are, in roughly chronological order of which I discovered them, starting back in the early 60’s with Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Stingray.

I’m still striving for the perfect formula.

Gerry Anderson
The Hotspur
Tarzan
Robert Louis Stevenson
Zulu
Ray Harryhausen
Quatermass and the Pit
The Apollo moon missions
Adam Adamant
Bogart movies
Alistair MacLean
Pan Books of Horror
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
William Hope Hodgson
John Wyndham
Guitar playing
H P Lovecraft
The Isle of Skye
X-Files
Newfoundland