Marks, Graham
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK design consultant, editor, Comics writer and author, much of whose work has been for younger children (and is not listed here); of his Young Adult work, much is nonfantastic. He is responsible for a late set of Ties to Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's last television series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-1968), beginning with Fire at Rig 15 (1993) and ending with Playing with Fire (1993); he also contributed a shorter sequence to the Thunderbirds universe, beginning with Countdown to Disaster (1993). The Strange Hiding Place sequence, beginning with Strange Hiding Place 1: Hard Drive (1995), exposes its young protagonist to two Alien civilizations at war. Individual titles include Fault Line (1996), in which Dinosaurs appear in Los Angeles, Zoo (2005), whose young protagonist's Paranoia about his parents and the world at large is justified, and Omega Place (2007), set in a surveillance-saturated Near Future London, where 250,000 CCTV cameras are in operation. [JC]
Graham Marks
born
works
series
Captain Scarlet
All titles are Ties to Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-1968).
- Fire at Rig 15 (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Inferno (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Red Alert (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Race of Truth (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Renegade Rocket (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Mysteron Trap (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Flight 104 (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Place of the Angels (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Rescue from the Skies (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Spectrum Strikes Back (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Solar Flare (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
- Playing with Fire (London: Boxtree, 1993) [chap: tie: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: pb/Arkadia]
Thunderbirds
- Countdown to Disaster (London: Boxtree, 1993) [tie to Thunderbirds: pb/]
- Thunderbirds to the Rescue (London: Boxtree, 1993) [tie to Thunderbirds: pb/]
- Thunderbirds: The Ultimate Pop-up Fact Book (London: Boxtree, 1993) [nonfiction: tie to Thunderbirds: pb/]
Strange Hiding Place
- Strange Hiding Place 1: Hard Drive (London: Hippo Books, 1995) [Strange Hiding Place: pb/James Goodridge]
- Strange Hiding Place 2: System Crash (London: Hippo Books, 1995) [Strange Hiding Place: pb/James Goodridge]
- Strange Hiding Place 3: Download (London: Hippo Books, 1995) [Strange Hiding Place: pb/James Goodridge]
individual titles (highly selected)
- Fault Line (London: Bantam, 1996) [hb/]
- Haden's Quest (London: Bantam, 1996) [hb/]
- Skitzo (London: Scholastic UK, 1997) [pb/David Wyatt]
- Zoo (London: Bloomsbury, 2005) [hb/]
- Omega Place (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2007) [hb/]
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