[garethrees]

The film was based on the novel "No Highway" (1948) by Nevil Shute, who had worked as an aeronautical engineer at De Havilland.

[arethuza]

It's good that not all of Nevil Shute's predictions were so accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)

[enriquto]

How do you know? As far as it goes, this novel might be actually an accurate prediction (except for the year).