nicholas fisk

Older genre fans may remember the author Nicholas Fisk, whose novels were around and about when I began reading SF. Here's his obituary in the Guardian. Space Hostages (1967) is the one I most vividly recall...

I remember reading this book when I was 10, back in 1979/1980, so pretty sure it was young adult science fiction. Set on normal modern earth. I was living in the UK at the time but I think the story itself was also set in the UK. Strange tiny crystals fall to earth, or perhaps were just...