Destination Time Travel

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About the Book: 

Where are we going? 

The future, Doc! 

Great Scott! 

Not forgetting the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey past. 

That’s right, ticket holders, Destination Time Travel is your journey into the many worlds of the time travel tale – exploring its tropes, its rules, its devices, its science, its values, its plots, its characters and, most importantly, its enduring – and timeless – appeal.

Reviews: 

As featured on London Live.

The ultimate guide to the fantastical genre … they show how seemingly divergent work – from the first Doctor Who to the DeLorean of Back to the Future and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator – can be considered part of the same storytelling tradition. SUNDAY POST

Taking in Doctor Who, Star Trek, the Back to the Future trilogy, and the seasonal treat that is A Christmas Carol, among others, each subject area is presented in bite-sized sections that will keep you occupied for ages, but we’ve all got plenty of time, haven’t we? BEST OF BRITISH

About the Authors:

STEVE NALLON has been a writer and performer in the world of comedy for over forty years. Steve began his performing life with his own comedy act on the Northern Working Men’s Club Circuit in Yorkshire back in the 1970s. After gaining a degree in Drama and English at the University of Birmingham, Steve became a founding member of the cult satirical comedy series Spitting Image, where for over a decade he voiced many of the programme’s most iconic characters, including Margaret Thatcher, Roy Hattersley, Alan Bennett and The Queen Mum. Steve’s acting work now ranges from theatre, film and television, to video games, puppetry and audio books. As a playwright and comedy writer, Steve has a considerable body of credits to his name, including plays and series for BBC radio, three one-man theatre shows and the satirical book I, Margaret, which he co-wrote with the novelist Tom Holt. Over the years, Steve has contributed to numerous periodicals such as The New Statesman and Musical Stages, and is a much sought after speaker on the lecture circuit for his insightful and amusing talks.

DICK FIDDY is a consultant with the British Film Institute. He is also a writer and a researcher who has contributed to many different publications such as Radio Times and has also been published by Bloomsbury. Fiddy is known for Not the Nine O’Clock News, The Ballad of Johnny Vanguard and Dad’s Army & Beyond.