Charles Eric Maine: Bibliography

by John Howard

Abbreviations used in this bibliography:

hc -- hardcover edition
pb -- paperback edition

FICTION

Alphabetical listing

ALPH
Ballantine Books 02904 1972 pb 216pp $1.25 (cover by Dean Ellis)
Science Fiction Book Club (US) 1972 hc 218pp (jacket by Brad Holland)
Notes: Revised version of World Without Men.

B.E.A.S.T. Biological Evolutionary Animal Simulation Test
Hodder & Stoughton 1966 hc 190pp 16/- (jacket by 'Studio' Stead)
Hodder & Stoughton 02863 1967 pb 190pp 3/6 (cover artist not credited)
Ballantine Books U6092 1967 pb 191pp 75c (same cover painting as UK paperback)

"The Big Count-Down"
Amazing Stories December 1958 pp77-145
Illustrated by Novick
Notes: UK magazine and book versions published as Count-Down.

THE BIG DEATH
Sphere Books 1978 pb
Sphere Books 0 7221 5717 1979 pb 223pp 95p (cover artist not credited)
Notes: Revised version of The Darkest of Nights. As well as being divided into chapters,
the narrative is also divided into three parts: 1 Diagnosis / 2 Prognosis / 3 Necrosis.

"The Boogie Matrix"
Authentic Science Fiction No.41 January 1954 pp62-93
Illustrated by Muller

CALCULATED RISK
Hodder & Stoughton 1960 hc 191pp 12/6 (jacket by Martin Kaye)
Corgi Books SS1118 1962 pb 126pp 2/6 (cover artist not credited)
Notes: Hardcover price later reduced to 7/6 by sticker covering original printed price

COUNT-DOWN
New Worlds Science Fiction Nos.81-83, March-May 1959
     Part 1 (No.81 March 1959) pp4-50
     Part 2 (No.82 April 1959) pp78-123
     Part 3 (No.83 May 1959) pp82-128
Hodder & Stoughton 1959 hc 191pp 12/6 (jacket by Martin Kaye)
Ballantine Books 360K 1960 pb 160pp 35c -- as Fire Past the Future (cover by Richard Powers)
Corgi Books SS971 1961 pb 189pp 2/6 (cover by John Richards)
Corgi Books GS7027 1964 pb 188pp 3/6 (cover artist not credited)
Notes: Magazine serialisation: all three issues featured cover paintings by Brian Lewis, but only that for the March issue illustrated "Count-Down".
A profile and photo of the author also appeared on the inside front cover of that issue. US magazine version previously published as "The Big Count-Down" Amazing Stories December 1958.

"Counter-Psych"
Amazing Stories November 1961 pp54-132
Illustrated by Virgil Finlay (interiors and back cover)
Notes: Book version previously published as Subterfuge.

CRISIS 2000
Hodder & Stoughton 1956 hc 191pp 10/6 (jacket artist not credited)
Corgi Books S520 1958 pb 224pp 2/6 (cover by John Richards)
Notes: Magazine version previously published as “The Festival of Earth” Spaceway December 1954.
Revised as "The Wall of Fire" Satellite Science Fiction June 1958.

THE DARKEST OF NIGHTS
Hodder & Stoughton 1962 hc 254pp 15/-
Science Fiction Book Club (UK) No. 83 1964 hc 254pp (standard Book Club jacket design)
Panther Books 1779 1965 pb 205pp 3/6 (cover artist not credited)
Gold Medal R1918 1968 pb 192pp 60c -- as Survival Margin
Notes: Revised version published as The Big Death.

ESCAPEMENT
Hodder & Stoughton 1957 hc 224pp 12/6 (jacket by Martin Kaye)
Lippincott 1958 hc 224pp $3.00 -- as The Man Who Couldn’t Sleep
Science Fiction Book Club (US)1958 hc 215pp $1.20 -- as The Man Who Couldn’t Sleep
Notes: UK hardcover subtitled 'A Scientific Thriller'. Filmed as Escapement (The Dream Machine and The Electronic Monster).

"The Festival of Earth"
Spaceway December 1954 pp2-46
Illustrated by Paul Blaisdell
Notes: Book version published as Crisis 2000. See also “The Wall of Fire”

FIRE PAST THE FUTURE see COUNT-DOWN

HE OWNED THE WORLD see THE MAN WHO OWNED THE WORLD

HIGH VACUUM
Hodder & Stoughton 1957 hc 192pp 12/6 (jacket by Martin Kaye)
Ballantine Books 1957 hc 193pp $2.75 (jacket by Richard Powers)
Ballantine Books #218 1957 pb 185pp 35c (cover by Richard Powers)
Corgi Books SS714 1959 pb 220pp 2/6 (cover artist not credited)

"Highway i"
Authentic Science Fiction No.39 November 1953 pp74-111
Illustrated by Gerald
Notes: Slightly different to “Highway J”. Book version published as Timeliner.

"Highway J"
Planet Stories November 1953
Other Worlds, Other Times edited by Sam Moskowitz and Roger Elwood
Macfadden-Bartell 75-238 1969 pb 192pp 75c (cover by Jack Faragasso) pp66-97
Manor Books 532-95310-095 1974 pb 192pp 95c (cover artist uncredited) pp66-97
Notes: Slightly different to "Highway i". Although the story appeared in two different magazines bearing the same cover date,
Herbert J Campbell, the editor of Authentic Science Fiction, stated that 'an American magazine' had also bought "Highway i"
a few weeks after he had. Book version published as Timeliner.

THE ISOTOPE MAN
Hodder & Stoughton 1957 hc 189pp 11/6 (jacket by Martin Kaye)
Lippincott 1957 hc 217pp $3.00
Science Fiction Book Club (US) 1957 hc 184pp (jacket by Ray Johnson)
Corgi Books S631 1959 pb 189pp 2/6 (cover artist not credited)
Notes: First in the Mike Delaney and Jill Friday series. Filmed as Timeslip (The Atomic Man).

"Joe Three Eyes"
New Tales of Unease edited by John Burke
Pan Books 0 330 24807 3 1976 pb 205pp 50p (cover by Chris Yates) pp66-85

THE MAN WHO COULDN'T SLEEP see ESCAPEMENT

THE MAN WHO OWNED THE WORLD
Avalon Books 1960 hc 224pp $2.95 -- as He Owned the World
Hodder & Stoughton 1961 hc 190pp 12/6 (jacket by Martin Kaye)
Avon T-524 1961 pb 144pp 35c -- as He Owned the World (cover by Richard Powers)
Panther Books 1610 1963 pb 123pp 2/6 (cover artist not credited)

THE MIND OF MR SOAMES
Hodder & Stoughton 1961 hc 252pp 15/- (jacket by John Woodcock)
Panther Books 1700 1964 pb 192pp 3/6
Panther Books 586 01700 3 1969 pb 192pp 5/6 (film tie-in photo cover)
Pyramid Books T2161 1970 pb
New English Library 02980 8 1976 hc 223pp £4.95 (jacket by Tim White)
New English Library 450 03005 9 1977 pb 223pp 95p (cover by Tim White)
Notes: The New English Library reprints formed part of their SF Master Series, and carried an Introduction by Harry Harrison.
Filmed as The Mind of Mr Soames.

"Mission From Space"
Fantastic Universe September 1955 pp52-58

NEVER LET UP
Hodder & Stoughton 1964 hc 191pp 15/- (jacket by John Woodcock)
Notes: Third in the Mike Delaney and Jill Friday series.

THE RANDOM FACTOR
Hodder & Stoughton 12533 0 1971 hc 187pp £l.25 (jacket by Graphics Partners)
Notes: Magazine version previously published as “The Yupe” Nebula Science Fiction No.11 December 1954.

"Repulsion Factor"
Authentic Science Fiction No.37 September 1953 pp86-106
Illustrated by Davis

"Reverse Procedure"
Space Science Fiction Spring 1957 pp80-116
Illustrated by Bruce Minney

"Scholarly Correspondence"
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact April 1974 pp155-162

"Short Circuit"
Tales of Unease edited by John Burke
Pan Books X482 1966 pb 271pp 3/6 (cover artist not credited) pp158-176
Doubleday 1969 hc 229pp

SPACEWAYS
Hodder & Stoughton 1953 hc 191pp 10/6
Pan Books 297 1954 pb 190pp 2/- (cover by Gerard Quinn)
Avalon Books 1958 hc 224pp $2.75 -- as Spaceways Satellite
Notes: UK hardcover subtitled 'A Story of the Very Near Future'. Filmed as Spaceways.

SPACEWAYS SATELLITE see SPACEWAYS

"Spaceways to Venus"
Spaceway December 1953 pp54-94
Illustrated by Mel Hunter

SUBTERFUGE
Hodder & Stoughton 1959 hc 192pp 12/6 (jacket by Martin Kaye)
Hodder & Stoughton 511 1962 pb 192pp 2/6 (cover artist not credited)
Notes: Second in the Mike Delaney and Jill Friday series. US magazine version published as “Counter-Psych” Amazing Stories November 1961.

SURVIVAL MARGIN see THE DARKEST OF NIGHTS

THIRST!
Sphere Books 0 7221 5720 7 1977 pb 187pp 65p (cover artist not credited)
Notes: Revised version of The Tide Went Out. Thirst! was categorized on back cover as 'FICTION (or prediction?)'. It was published the year
following the great 1976 drought!

THE TIDE WENT OUT
Hodder & Stoughton 1958 hc 190pp 12/6
Science Fiction Book Club (UK) No.40 1959 hc 190pp (standard Book Club jacket design)
Ballantine Books 290K 1959 pb 156pp 35c (cover by Richard Powers)
Corgi Books SS873 1960 pb 220pp 2/6 (cover by John Richards)
Notes: US magazine version published as “The Waters Under the Earth” Amazing Stories July 1958.
Revised book version published as Thirst!

TIMELINER
Hodder & Stoughton 1955 hc 192pp 10/6 (jacket artist not credited)
Rinehart 1955 hc 186pp $2.75
Science Fiction Book Club (US) 1955 hc
Bantam Books A1460 1956 pb 182pp 35c (cover artist not credited)
Corgi Books S554 1959 pb 222pp 2/6 (cover by John Richards)
Corgi Books GS1512 1964 pb 190pp 3/6
Notes: UK magazine publication of the short story version “Highway i” Authentic Science Fiction No.39 November 1953.
US magazine publication as "Highway J" Planet Stories November 1953. UK hardcover subtitled 'A Story of Time and Space'.

"Troubleshooter"
Nebula Science Fiction No.7 February 1954 pp30-39
Illustrated by Bill Price

"The Trouble with Mars"
Authentic Science Fiction No.59 July 1955 pp4-47

"The Wall of Fire"
Satellite Science Fiction June 1958 pp4-92
Cover by Robert Braun. Interior illustration not credited
Notes: See “The Festival of Earth” which is set in Manhattan rather than Florida. Book version previously published as Crisis 2000.

"The Waters Under the Earth"
Amazing Stories July 1958 pp49-145
Illustrated by Leo Summers
Notes: Chapters are given titles: 1 Operation Nutcracker / 2 Panic in London / 3 The Crumbling Earth / 4 The Shape of Chaos /
5 The Censor Clamp / 6 The Widening Fissure / 7 The Survival Syndrome / 8 The Three Horsemen / 9 Zero Absolute /
10 Desperation Total / 11 Cold Salvation. In the book version The Tide Went Out the chapters are only numbered.

WORLD WITHOUT MEN
Ace Books D-274 1958 pb 190pp 35c (cover by Emsh)
Digit Books R208 1963 pb 158pp 2/6 (cover by RAO)
Notes: The spine of the Ace edition prints the author's name as 'Eric Maine'. Revised version published as Alph.

"The Yupe"
Nebula Science Fiction No.11 December 1954
Notes: Book version published as The Random Factor.

Chronological listing

1953
Spaceways (Spaceways Satellite)
"Highway i"
"Highway J"
"Repulsion Factor"
"Spaceways to Venus"

1954
"The Boogie Matrix"
"The Festival of Earth"
"Troubleshooter"
"The Yupe"

1955
Timeliner
"Mission From Space"
"The Trouble with Mars"

1956
Crisis 2000

1957
Escapement (The Man Who Couldn’t Sleep)
High Vacuum
The Isotope Man
"Reverse Procedure"

1958
The Tide Went Out
World Without Men
"The Big Count-Down”
"The Wall of Fire"
"The Waters Under the Earth"

1959
Count-Down (Fire Past the Future)
Subterfuge
"Count-Down"

1960
Calculated Risk
The Man Who Owned the World (He Owned the World)

1961
The Mind of Mr Soames
"Counter-Psych"

1962
The Darkest of Nights (Survival Margin)

1964
Never Let Up

1966
B.E.A.S.T.
"Short Circuit"

1971
The Random Factor

1972
Alph

1974
"Scholarly Correspondence"

1976
"Joe Three Eyes"

1977
Thirst!

1978
The Big Death

SERIES

Mike Delaney and Jill Friday of View magazine:

The Isotope Man
Subterfuge
Never Let Up

NON-FICTION

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

"STF Plotting 3-D"
Authentic Science Fiction No.41 January 1954
pp94-97

MEDIA

FILMS

THE ATOMIC MAN see TIMESLIP

THE DREAM MACHINE see ESCAPEMENT

THE ELECTRONIC MONSTER see ESCAPEMENT

ESCAPEMENT (THE DREAM MACHINE and THE ELECTRONIC MONSTER)
Amalgamated Productions 1958
72 minutes / black & white
Director: Montgomery Tully
Produced by Alec Snowden
Screenplay by Charles Eric Maine and J Maclaren Ross
Cast includes Rod Cameron, Meredith Edwards, Peter Illing, Mary Murphy
Notes: Based on Escapement.

THE MIND OF MR SOAMES
Amicus Productions 1970
95 minutes / colour
Director: Alan Cooke
Produced by Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg
Screenplay by John Hale and Edward Simpson
Cast includes Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts, Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn
Notes: Based on The Mind of Mr Soames.

SPACEWAYS
Hammer Films 1953
76 minutes / black & white
Director: Terence Fisher
Produced by Michael Carreras
Screenplay by Paul Tabori and Richard Landau
Cast includes Eva Bartok, Howard Duff, Philip Leaver, Alan Wheatley
Notes: Based on radio play Spaceways.

TIMESLIP (THE ATOMIC MAN)
Todon Productions 1956
78 minutes / black & white
Director: Ken Hughes
Produced by Alec Snowden
Screenplay by Charles Eric Maine
Cast includes Peter Arne, Faith Domergue, Gene Nelson, Joseph Tomelty
Notes: Screenplay became the basis of The Isotope Man.

RADIO PLAYS

SPACEWAYS
BBC 1952
Notes: Film and book versions appeared as Spaceways.

THE EINSTEIN HIGHWAY
BBC Light Programme 21 February 1954
Notes: Book version published as Timeliner.

TELEVISION PLAYS

TIMESLIP
BBC 25 November 1953
30 minutes
Produced by Andrew Osborn
Written by Charles Eric Maine
Cast includes Jack Rodney, Harold Jamieson, Robert Ayres
Notes: Broadcast not recorded. Filmed as Timeslip (The Atomic Man). Timeslip became the basis of The Isotope Man.

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful for information contained in the following standard reference works: The MIT Science Fiction Society’s Index to the SF Magazines, 1951-1965 edited by Erwin S Strauss, and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volume 2) by Donald H Tuck. Phil Stephensen-Payne, co-publisher of the valuable Galactic Central Bibliographies, pointed out some stories that I had missed. Lars Sydolf provided the covers for the two novels published by Avalon. His website displays a large number of classic Avalon book covers, by Emsh, Gray Morrow, and others.

John Burke and Sam Youd kindly provided me with recollections of their friend, as well as other helpful information.

Doubtless there are errors and omissions here. I would like to hear from anyone who can provide further information, additions, and/or corrections -- please email me.

-- John Howard

Copyright (c) 2008 John Howard