Career
He also published science fiction using the pseudonym Philip Latham. "Philip Latham can support the suppositions that are the basis of his science fiction novels with accepted scientific theories. Foreign he"s an author who"s in the business of "watching the stars." An astronomer at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories since 1931, he started writing for magazines in the early forties.
Movie producers as well as publishers find Mr.
Latham"s experience too good to pass up. He has given technical assistance to a number of studios on pictures such as Destination Moon, and he has written an article describing the work on the science fiction thriller When Worlds Collide.
- from the back flap of the dust jacket on Five Against Venus.