but HW: New Hawkwind Biography Confirmed

[Ian Abrahams]

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From: "William Duffy" <xl5 at IINET.NET.AU>
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> >
> > The one I didn't get was the 3 Dr Who stories with the same name as
> Hawkwind
> > numbers.
> >
>
> Got me thinking, & I discovered these three (by slightly cheating &
looking
> at the video spines):-
>
> Robot
> The Awakening
> Snakedance

Robot was the one I didn't get! There aren't any more (are there????)

>
> There may be even more as well. There was even a rumour at one stage that
> one of the script writers was a big fan, & on recent reflection of stories
> he was involved with (featuring Sylvester McCoy), quite a numer of those
> stories were based on ideas that were also covered by Hawkwind & Co.
> Paradise Towers was based on the novel High Rise. Greatest Show in the
> Galaxy featured the gods of Ragna Rok (Lucky Lief?), & Curse of Fenric was
> virtually a visual interpretation of that same song by Bob Calvert.
> There's others as well, that I can't think of at the moment, but it might
> get some other Who fans thinking as well?

Andrew Cartmel was the script editor in question - but his passion for
Hawkwind was, apparently, just a rumour and nothing more.

Ian