Upon receiving his PhD (the title of his thesis was "Pattern Perception and the Stabilised Retinal Image"), he went to the Division of Computer Science, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, in 1964, where he remained until his death from cancer in 1979.
He subsequently scripted and presented for ATV a six-part television series based on this book and broadcast posthumously by ITV between October and December 1979.
Evans' charismatic appearance as a "hoodlum scientist" (in Ballard's description[5]) was an inspiration for the character of Dr. Robert Vaughan in Crash.
Evans also appears in Ballard's fictionalised life story The Kindness of Women as the psychologist Dr. Richard Sutherland.
[6] Christopher Evans died of cancer in 1979, at the age of 48, shortly after The Mighty Micro had been published in hardcover[7] and before the broadcast of the TV programmes.