BSFA Award
1 appearances
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Edition 19 (1987) Winner
Chris Boucher
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Kurisu Būshā
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1943-05-01 （England）
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- screenwriter, script editor, novelist
- Active Years
- 1977-2024
- Affiliations
- BBC
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | BSFA Media Award | Star Cops | Media | British Science Fiction Association | Won |
BSFA Media Award
1987
Work:
Star Cops
Category:
Media
Organization:
British Science Fiction Association
Result:
Won
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
An Instinct for Murder
2013 Hard SFChief Inspector Nathan Spring investigates spacesuit failures on a space station while being reassigned to lead the Star Cops.
space policetechnological crimehuman instinct
Adaptations
- [TV drama] Star Cops / Christopher Baker (1987)
Bibliography
- An Instinct for Murder
- Little Green Men and Other Stories
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- realistic space depictiondialogue-driven scriptspolice procedural
- Recurring Motifs
- human vs machinesins of the fatherfrontier spirit
Legacy
Chris Boucher is known for Doctor Who and Blake's 7, creating the realistic hard SF police drama Star Cops, which won the BSFA Media Award and has been reappraised, with Big Finish audio sequels.
In Popular Culture
- Big Finish Productions audio drama series
Quotes
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Spacemen are ten-a-penny. What they need out there is a good copper.
Source: Star Cops episode 1: An Instinct for Murder (1987)
Trivia
- Also wrote for Doctor Who and script-edited Blake's 7.
- Star Cops theme by Justin Hayward.
- Series cancelled after 9 episodes, 10th scrapped.