So it turns out there’s a ‘Britain is Fucked’ novel about Hawkwind tonning around in a van fighting ghosts and squares with guns that shoot their music AND that happens to feature Moorcock as a tertiary character with a saucy house computer.
WHO KNEW???
Well, some of you did obviously… but I didn’t until my mate Yarks sent me a copy for my birthday a few years ago. It turns out that I was dimly aware of author Michael Butterworth at the time as I’d had some of his Space 1999 novelisations on my shelf for f’n years without realising that he was one of the dudes behind Savoy Books and appears to be a really cool cat.
So who better to drop by Derry and Toms to talk about it than Joe Banks, author of Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia?
Nobody. Nobody better.
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Breakfast in the Ruins Podcast 
So that’s where Morlock the Acid Wizard comes from. I heard it referred to as something he’d picked up in school before being ousted, but that seemed premature. I might need to revisit the Butterworth books in their new editions.
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Well worth the effort I must say. Yet to get to Queens of Deliria but TotH was so entertaining.
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