“Chris’s own subtitle for the book, Fragments from a Life in Writing, makes for a perfect description of what it is about. The pieces are arranged not according to when they were written but according to how they fit into the chronology of his writing life. Here you will find essays on many of the key enthusiasms that surfaced again and again in Chris’s writing: stage magic, H.G. Wells, World War II. And science fiction, of course, there’s plenty about that”
– from the Foreword by Nina Allan