Richard Wilson

The barn turned out to be a spaceship in disguise, and that was only the beginning. Before his strange adventure ended, young Paul Asher found himself going around in circles-very peculiar circles indeed!

Richard Wilson (1920-1987) was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was at his most prolific in the 1950s -- though he continued writing throughout his entire life. This volume focuses on his science fiction (24 stories) from the 1950s, but also includes a "non fiction" ghost story and a brief autobiography written in the 1980s. Included are: MURDER FROM MARS STEPSONS OF MARS DATELINE:...

When the beautiful invaders took over, only Texas fought back! A "different" science fiction novel by award-winning author Richard Wilson. Originally published in 1955, this is a science fiction romp that pokes fun at the B-Movie notion of beautiful alien invaders. Richard Wilson (1920-1987) was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians (alongside such notables as Isaac Asimov, Donald A. Wollheim,...

The ghost of the young woman in Elizabethan dress first appeared to me in the library of the big house that so recently had belonged to my parents. At first I thought it was my mother come back to the home she and my father had made for each other and where they lived happily for so many years. But there could be no reason for the ghost of my mother to wear a period costume. It might have been more appropriate for her to wear the short skirt and bobbed...

'A terrific blow for freedom. Richly comic' Boris Johnson. 'Properly funny. I've put it in a seldom-used toilet.' Jeremy Clarkson We are forever being ordered around – 100 things to do before you're 30; 50 albums you must own; change your life in two weeks. Why – is this an increasingly desperate search for happiness? Perhaps you can in fact attain happiness not by going anywhere or doing anything but instead by actually reducing your ambitions....

It was big news for reporters throughout the solar system. After a cargo-liner en route from Earth to Mars blew up as it was coming in for a landing, killing all eight persons aboard, the workers went on strike. Spacemen had walked out in a demand for higher pay and better retirement benefits. The spacemen's union included not only pilots but crewmen, mechanics, and maintenance workers at the spaceports. But was it a tragic accident-or sabotage?

Amazing Stories Volume 156 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by two different authors: "The Sons of Japeth", and "The Enemy", both by Richard Wilson and "Last Night Out", and "Formula For Murder", by Milton A Rothman.

Online Kids these days are all fat, lazy and thick and their parents don't know how to bring them up properly anymore. They're glued to their phones, play too many violent computer games, communicate only in text-speak and as a result have no imagination or any 'proper' old-fashioned fun like we did when we were children. But is that really true? Were conkers, hopscotch and the hoop and stick really as stimulating as we remember? And were our childhoods...

This week Richard is in Devon with the 1936 guide written by John Betjeman who went on to become the much-loved poet laureate and broadcaster.

With his 1936 guide on board, Richard is exploring the beautiful county of Dorset. Richard grew up on the banks of the Clyde and is always keen to be near water so his first stop off is to the coast at Studland where there's a surprising encounter with a local.