Charles Eric Maine

David McIlwain (21 January 1921 – 30 November 1981)[1] better known by his pen name, Charles Eric Maine, was an English writer best known for several science fiction serials published in the 1950s and 1960s.

He also wrote detective thrillers under the pen names Richard Rayner and Robert Wade.

[3] His writing career began with publishing three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke.

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

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

Maine's 1955 novel, Crisis 2000 , saw its first American publication as the cover story for the June 1958 issue of Satellite Science Fiction , under the title "Wall of Fire"