The January Fringe was something of a comedy special. As Will Loram had been eaten by aliens, or by the Welsh, or by Bristol's traffic, Nick Walters kindly agreed to take the mic first. Nick had arrived hotfoot from a training course on project management, which is perhaps ideal preparation for reading from a novel in which the Earth is menaced by alien bureaucrats. Fortunately a certain Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart will arrive to save the day, though not in the extract that Nick reads.

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