Notes
About the Author, an essay by Philip Harbottle, can be found on pages 169-175 of this collection. This essay contains extracts from an interview or correspondence with Philip E. High.

Published in January 2013.

Philip E. High on Nevil Shute
I was a prodigious reader of all types of fiction (and non-fiction) but now that I think on it, there was one writer whose style always impressed me. Not an sf man, but an Australian writer named Nevil Shute. His style, his approach, was the one I most admired and I hoped, and am still hoping to write as well as he did. Perhaps he was not all that brilliant, but his style suited me, and the way I wanted to write my own stories.