Sunday, November 15, 2009

 When we were still in short trousers, one of the most talked-about programmes on television was a wonderfully low-budget BBC sci-fi adaption of John Christopher’s Tripods books. The plot, in a nutshell, is this: humanity has been conquered and enslaved by The Tripods, unseen alien entities who travel about in gigantic, terrifying three-legged walking machines. [...]