THE SQUARES OF THE CITY

John Brunner is an much underrated/over-looked Brit SF writer who stood slightly to the side of the late 60's/early 70's New Wave, which may explain why he's perhaps not remembered as well as some of his contemporaries. He lived in the village of South Petherton (about 7/8 miles from Yeovil and home to Farmer Glitch!) for a while in the early/mid-70s. Almost impossible to imagine now that there was once a South Petherton SF Writers Group / Association (dunno if it ever had a formal title), who used to sometimes assemble round Dom Zero / Lurch's folk's house, with various writers like Christopher Priest, James Blish and Sam Delaney dropping in for drinks, etc when they were in the area.

I told you it's kinda strange around our way.