Watson, Simon
Entry updated 28 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author of No Man's Land (1975), set in a Dystopian Near Future Britain based on a coercive concentration of the working class community-destructive high-rise tenements. Something similar had in fact happened in the real world during the twentieth century after World War Two, a process flagrantly contradictive of the pre-War English Garden Suburb movement, which bequeathed spacious suburban lives upon middle-class inhabitants; Watson's tale, in which a young lad transformatively escapes peonage and helps keep a giant industrial Robot from destroying an ancient dwelling, may have seemed counter-factual in 1976. This sense may be alleviated by the fact that many of the post-War highrise barracks were demolished in the following decades as they were poisonous to those relegated to live in them. [JC]
Simon Watson
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- No Man's Land (London: Victor Gollancz, 1975) [hb/]
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