The BBC article mentions some of his fiction books and stories but not his non-fiction book - "The Billion Year Spree, the History of Science Fiction" published in 1973. This was revised and expanded by him in 1985 as "The Trillion Year Spree". They were fascinating but of course now over 30 years out of date.
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