The Darkest of Nights by Charles Eric Maine

I highlit a lot (60 entries!) and much paralleled what the world has and is going through that I had the same feeling I had when reading Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, where I put the book down and had to wonder if the universe had a twisted sense of humour given current reality. This wasn't long and was very much a page-turner. Yes, I still have some pandemic topic fiction to read even after going through 2020 to the present. The Darkest of Nights (1962) (Variant Title: Survival Margin) He Owned the World (1960) (Variant Title: The Man Who Owned the World) World Without Men (1958) (Revised in 1972 with Variant Title: Alph)Ĭount-Down (1959) (Variant Title: Fire Past the Future) The Tide Went Out (1958) (Revised in 1997 with Variant Title: Thirst!)

Spaceways (1953) (Variant Title: Spaceways Satellite)Įscapement (1956) (Variant Title: The Man Who Couldn't Sleep) It was originally written as a radio play known as The Einstein Highway. One of his best known stories, Timeliner, was about a scientist who experiments with a time machine, only to be maliciously thrust into the future by a fellow scientist who was having an affair with his wife. Due to its popularity, it became a novel as well as a movie. During 1952, he sold his first radio play, Spaceways, to the BBC. From 1940 to 1941, he published his own magazine called Gargoyle.ĭuring World War II, he was in the Royal Air Force and served in Northern Africa in 1943.Īfter the war, he worked in TV engineering, and became involved in editorial work with radio and TV. He published three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J.

His stories were thrillers that dealt with new scientific technology Charles Eric Maine (pseudonym of David McIlwain 21 January 1921 – 30 November 1981) was an English science fiction writer whose most prominent works were published in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Darkest of Nights by Charles Eric Maine