the novel and began to submit it to publishers, after four rejections it was accepted by John Long and published in July 1949 to positive reviews. A film version of Four Sided Triangle directed by Terence Fisher was released in 1953. His son Cliff Temple was born in 1947. Later work In the early- and mid-1950s Temple was a full-time writer who regularly sold to magazines but found less success with novels, though he did sell the Martin Magnus series for young readers and a non-fiction book on space travel. However, in spite of being voted "Author of the Year" for 1957 by the reader of Nebula Science Fiction the income from these markets was not sufficient to support his family so he returned to full-time employment in 1957. In the early 1960s he expanded three earlier short stories into short novels for the American Ace Doubles line: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction refers to these books as "undistinguished". In the mid-1960s, Temple attempted to respond to New Wave science fiction with a pair of more ambitious novels. Shoot at the Moon is a parodic story about a British Moon landing with a murder mystery plotline, however, though the book was praised in SF markets by Hilary Bailey and Judith Merril his American publisher Simon & Schuster was deterred from pursuing the planned promotion and film option with ABC by a negative New York Times review. His next and last novel, The Fleshpots of Sansato (1968) was issued in a poorly-edited edition by New English Library, leading Temple to halt his writing career. Temple later considered a novel about faith healing but ceased work on it after his agent said there was no market. He died in 1989. Temple's son, Cliff Temple, was a leading UK athletics journalist, writer, commentator, and coach; and his daughter, Anne Patrizio MBE is well known in the UK as a campaigner for the rights of LGBT people and their parents. Works His best-known work might be the novel which formed the basis for the film Four Sided Triangle, a 1949 novel which Groff Conklin called "brilliantly charactered and humanly real". P. Schuyler Miller praised its "warmly believable characters." Four-Sided Triangle and Shoot at the Moon were reissued in 2018 by the British Library. Temple also wrote space opera, such as his last novel The Fleshpots of Sansato (1968). His science fiction novels include the