Nicholas Fisk
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Nicholas Fisk is the pseudonym of David Higginbottom (born 1923), a writer of science fiction books, mainly for children. His works include Grinny, You Remember Me, Space Hostages and Trillions. He also wrote the Starstormers series of novels. His short story "Cutie Pie" is based on an ET with human like feelings.
His first book, The Fast Green Car, was published in 1965.
Both You Remember Me and Grinny deal with a normal family in middle England whose lives change when they are visited by aliens. In Grinny, the alien takes the form of an apparently benign elderly relative who can play mind tricks on the adults in the family but not on the children. This Granny-esque figure is eventually caught out by the childrens' ingenuity (they realise she is no normal human being when she expects what they describe to her as a "cast-iron conker" to be made of cast iron).
In You Remember Me, the same breed of aliens returns to earth and tries again to take over the earth, this time by inhabiting an attractive television presenter who can apply her mind tricks to many thousands as she presents her TV shows. Once again, she is thwarted by the children.
His other works include the children's series "'Starstormers'", published between 1980 and 1983 by Hodder. "'Starstormers'" consisted of five books; "'Starstormers'", "'Sunburst'", "'Catfang'", "'Evil Eye'" and "'Volcano'".
[edit] Bibliography of Nicholas Fisk's Works
- The Fast Green Car (1965)
- There's Something on the Roof (1966)
- Making Music (1966)
- Space Hostages (1967)
- Lindbergh the lone flier (1968)
- Richthofen: The Red Baron (1968)
- Cars (1969)
- Trillions (1971)
- Grinny (1973)
- High Way Home (1973)
- Emma Borrows a Cup of Sugar (1974)
- You Remember Me! (1974)
- Little Green Spaceman (1974)
- The Witches of Wimmering (1976)
- Wheelie in the Stars (1976)
- Time Trap (1976)
- Antigrav (1978)
- Escape from Splatterbang (1978)
- Flamers! (1979)
- Monster Maker (1979)
- The Best of New Dimensions (1979)
- Starstormers (1980)
- Sunburst (1980)
- A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair (1980)
- Leadfoot (1980)
- Catfang (1981)
- Robot Revolt (1981)
- Evil Eye (1982)
- Extraterrestrial Tales (1976)
- Volcano (1983)
- On the Flip Side (1983)
- Snatched (1984)
- Bonkers Clocks (1985)
- Dark Sun, Bright Sun (1986)
- Mindbenders (1987)
- Sweets from a Stranger: And Other Strange Tales (1982)
- Living Fire: And Other Science Fiction Stories (1987)
- Backlash (1988)
- The Talking Car (1988)
- Horror Stories (1988)
- The Worm Charmers (1989)
- The Back-Yard War (1990)
- The Model Village (1990)
- A Hole in the Head (1991)
- The Telly Is Watching You (1991)
- Broops! Down the Chimney (1991)
- Pig Ignorant (1992)
- The Puffin Book of Science Fiction (1993)
- The Great Pet Show (1994)
- Fantastico (1994)
- Not a Dickybird (1996)
- Space Stories (1996)
- Flip Side (1998)
- The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1998)
- Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds (2000)
- Bruce Coville's UFOs (2000)
