A vast number of the Badger sci-fi books, including all five of the titles above, were written under a variety of pseudonyms by Lionel Fanthorpe, who some of you may remember as the host of the “Fortean TV” series during the late 1990s. Fanthorpe is also a fully ordained Anglican minister, the president of the British UFO Research Association, and a qualified weight-lifting instructor – not that I should imagine he goes in for much weight-lifting now he’s not far short of 80 years old. He wrote a staggering 180 books for Badger between 1960 and 1967, which is something like two new titles every month, an achievement all the more astonishing since he had a full-time job as a teacher throughout this period. However iffy Lionel Fanthorpe’s writing might have been, that’s got to be some sort of record.