Nicholas Fisk has been an actor, jazz musician, illustrator and photographer. He has written more than forty books, most of which are Science Fiction for older children.

His starting point for a story is an IF ...IF we had a domestic robot, IF we could talk to animal, IF we could move back and forth in time. On such premises he places people - recognisable people living ordinary lives - until the IF explodes.

"I believe that almost any imaginable possibility may become a reality within the lifetime of a young person today : the previous century saw more changes and discoveries than any other and change gets faster every day." - Nicholas Fisk

"A most entertaining writer, Fisk could be described as the Huxley-Wyndham-Golding of children's literature scaled, but not watered down"
TWENTIETH CENTURY CHILDREN'S WRITERS