David Compton obituary | Science fiction books
Science fiction books This article is more than 1 month oldObituaryDavid Compton obituaryThis article is more than 1 month oldScience fiction writer whose novel foreseeing reality TV was adapted as Bertrand Tavernier’s film Death Watch
In his most accomplished novel, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, David Compton, who has died aged 93, anticipated the impact of reality television on the lives of its subjects. The book was published under the name of DG Compton in 1974, at least two decades before the fad for fly-on-the-wall documentaries revealed the ghoulish public curiosity in personal traumas.
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