nicholas fisk

A teenage boy who lives in a domed city of the future has an uncle or great uncle who was an astronaut. The uncle had kept these pills that was supposed to help their bodies readjust to the conditions of Earth after being in space. These pills had the effect of transporting the uncle into the...

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...

Please help me find this book I read during the 80s. It featured a young boy who is apparently growing up during the Blitz in London. The twist is that actually he is a clone, re-created in the future from old DNA as an experiment. A young girl from the future befriends him, but when she breaks...

One of the earliest sci-fi stories i remember was read to us at school 40 years ago. I wonder if any one can help me remember the title and author please. It was about small crystals, stones that a child learned to comunicate / build with. The end of the book the child sends them all back into...

Think it was written in 70s. Written from the perspective of a boy that lives in britain in what he thinks is WWII, as the story unfolds it turns out that he was never born but is a clone/replicant and him and others like him are part of some experiment living in a WWII scenario, he starts to...

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...

Hi everybody! I apologize for not searching the forums for previous posts, but I was unsure as to how to search (the one about the ...) but I am in need of help in finding some of the books I read as a child. 1. there is one about a group of children who board a space ship, and the ship takes...