Nevil Shute has been one of my favourite authors for decades. Slide Rule is one of my all-time favourite books. In fact, I was just thinking the other day that it's time I re-read it. I don't know why it hasn't been made into a movie. As an ex-employee of a few state and local government departments I find the comparison between a business perspective and government bull-headed, head-in-the-sand bureaucracy fascinating but I also love anything to do with flying so designing and building airships fascinated me as well.

(The government bureaucracy and management madness theme reminds me of a very clever, very funny Oz TV series called Grass Roots. Watching it, I would be howling with laughter but almost crying in despair because to me it was a lived experience.)

I have read Trustee From The Toolroom but I've also read every other NS book I could find so I don't remember that one specifically. I have about 40 of his books so I'll find it and read it again, after I read Slide Rule again, of course.

I think that when I discovered Terry Pratchett he sent me off course for a couple of decades for reading other fantasy/Sci-Fi authors because he was so clever and funny and inventive. I bought every one of his books that I could find. And, being a librarian in a public library branch, I also ordered one of each for the library shelves - and told (i.e. converted to Pratchettism) everyone I knew who would listen.