Christopher Hodder-Williams
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Description
John Christopher Glazebrook Hodder-Williams was an English musician, songwriter and author, mainly of science fiction. But he also wrote novels about aviation and espionage. He was the son of Ralph Hodder-Williams, who was one of the owners of the British publishing firm 'Hodder and Stoughton. Many of his books are early examples of what would later be called techno-thrillers. He also wrote teleplays and worked as a composer and lyricist.
Books
The silent voice
A fourteen-year-old street urchin who can not speak is befriended by a famous Parisian mime. They change each other's lives.
Panic o'clock
Diana Keeling is a woman who faces the world with practised equanimity, acting out the role of wife and mother on her neat estate to perfection. Then one day a cryptic, desperately urgent telephone call from her husband breaks the tenuous bubble of normality and the panic has begun. Like lemmings the victims hurtle to their deaths; the situation is one which today belongs to science-fiction, but a madness, a topple into darkness could bring a situation of panic such as this into reality tomorrow. Christopher Hodder-Williams is an accomplished writer who cleverly blends fact and fantasy into a book which is compulsively readable...and very frightening.