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See, for instance, Nevil Shute's biography Slide Rule in which he describes being in charge of a department of calculators when working on the R100.

This is further afield, but it reminded me of the novel A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute.

On the Beach by Nevil Shute was similar, not about nuclear winter but about radiation killing everyone.

This guy's whole corpus reminds me of Nevil Shute's _Trustee from the Toolroom_: quiet, fastidious, and expert work appreciated worldwide.

Also, On The Beach by Nevil Shute and Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson are missing (the former kind of appropriate again these days).

You might enjoy the novel A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute.

Tangentially related, but as everyone here seems to enjoy talk of nuclear [things], it’s worth a recommendation: Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel ‘On the Beach’.

I recently read 'A Town like Alice' by Nevil Shute which I really enjoyed.

But Nevil Shute was not interested in a Noah's ark story, he was interested in the story where there is no human alive after a nuclear war.

Or maybe he should just go back to reading some Nevil Shute or some Walter M Miller if he thinks science fiction is so optimistic across the board.

This was pretty good, and not as bleak as I would have guessed given the subject matter and having read On The Beach by Nevil Shute.

I love the books of Nevil Shute (not exactly sci fi - engineering fi maybe?).

I highly recommend "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute, as an exploration of exactly this scenario.

I looked it up, but this from Wikipedia put me off: "Nevil Shute was displeased with the final cut of the film, feeling that too many changes had been made at the expense of the story's integrity.

Nevil Monroe Hopkins, but are still at least one button short.

Nevil Shute was an engineer and he wrote some well respected novels like the nuclear war story On the Beach (made into a movie twice), A Town like Alice (made into a film and TV series), and No Highway (sometimes called No Highway in the Sky after the title of the film based on it), which actually deals with aircraft engineering and the problems involved in designing early jet airliners.