New on Archive.org and possibly of interest to some. Who’s Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction (1978), which seems useful for getting biographies of authors who are now neglected or forgotten. And The Pulps : fifty years of American pop culture (1976). This latter appears from the contents-page to be a sampler rather than a history.

The silly-season for news is here, and things are getting a bit slack while scholars are at the beach. So here’s an off-topic post that may still interest some Tentaclii readers, though I recognise that 1970s British TV sci-fi is an acquired taste. My mega-re-watch of the best of Doctor Who is ongoing, and as such I was interested to learn of a book-length guide to one of its competitor TV series called The Tomorrow People. I fondly but rather vaguely recall this from my youth, though haven’t seen it in many decades.

The book guide for the series is titled Jaunt: A Viewer’s Guide to The Tomorrow People. First issued in 2013, and now in July 2022 just re-issued in a new “revised and expanded edition” including detailed coverage of the original comic-strip adventures that were run in Look-In.

The cover is a faux emulation of a 1970s second-hand Penguin paperback.

I was also interested to hear of… “the return of the Tomorrow People in a lavish 1990s international co-production”, a TV reboot news of which had completely passed me by. There’s also said to be a modern third series, but it sounds both politically correct and radically changed, being set in a dystopian… “world far removed” from “the original series’ vision”.