Excellent Roger! Your work hits the spot! Shame they didnt discover you! Publishing is a difficult industry, and actually alot is simply who you know; or if you are already famous, they simply get a ghost writer. Cynical but often true. You never know, the marauding masses might applaud and embrace the old coots, and a ufo might land and an alien take one back too. As evidence! (er.. of a kind of strange life forms in habitation lol). And if they come back for you personally, you the intergalactic star! then send us a postcard!
edit: just re-read your op which i have a habit of scanning ovver quickly, hope you recover quickly good health!