Michael Frayn at 90: a miscellany of the satirical columnist’s finest moments

I only read one of his books, a SciFi novella called "A Very Private Life" which I picked up in a second hand book sale on a whim.

I really enjoyed it. SciFi come with the thinking of the time it was written (1968) and some of that is evident, but the idea of a society ("the insiders") which never meet each other in the flesh and only interact via screens seems quite prophetic.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25958761-a-very-private-...

Sadly Frayn will always be tarred in my eyes having been subjected to Spies in GCSE(? A-level? It all blurs together) English.

I was thinking about making the same comment.

It's such an awful book.

Oh, well he wrote a lot of other stuff! My favorite would be 'The Tin Men' set in a research institute.

It has ethical robots, and universal headline language (UHL) among other ideas.

I sold Michael a computer with an A4 white display in the 90s - nice guy. My favourite work is the film "Clockwise" with John Cleese.....

Didn't he write The Russian Interpreter and Noises Off?