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Charles Eric Maine

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Born: January 20 1921

Died: 2929 11 19811981

Charles Eric Maine was an English science fiction writer whose most prominent works were published in the 1950s and 1960s. His stories were thrillers that dealt with new scientific technology

Biography

McIlwain was born in Liverpool.

He published three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke. From 1940 to 1941, he published his own magazine called Gargoyle.

During World War II, he was in the Royal Air Force and served in Northern Africa in 1943.

After the war, he worked in TV engineering, and became involved in editorial work with radio and TV. During 1952, he sold his first radio play, Spaceways, to the BBC. Due to its popularity, it became a novel as well as a movie.

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. It was originally written as a radio play known as The Einstein Highway.

He died in London in 1981.
Bibliography

Spaceways
Timeliner
Escapement
High Vacuum
The Tide Went Out
World Without Men
Count-Down
Crisis 2000
Subterfuge
Calculated Risk
He Owned the World
The Mind of Mr. Soames
The Darkest of Nights
B.E.A.S.T.
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The Tide Went Out

The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6)

The Mind of Mr. Soames

BEAST: Biological Evolutionary Animal Simulation Test

Tijdlijner

High Vacuum

جريمة في الفضاء

Rischio Calcolato

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1974 April

Tales of Unease

La giostra del tempo e dello spazio

Mondo di donne - Il sostituto

Science Fiction Story Reader 6

Count-down

Crisi 2000

The Isotope Man

Mundo sem Tempo

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