October the First Is Too Late

Hoyle, Fred

ISBN 10: 0706608631 / ISBN 13: 9780706608632

Published by Remploy, 1980

About this Item

1980 Remploy Reprint Hardcover 1st in this edition Edition , near fine in near fine dustjacket, unclipped.

Seller Inventory # ABE-5955655009

Bibliographic Details

• Title: October the First Is Too Late
• Publisher: Remploy
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0706608631
• ISBN 13: 9780706608632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Professor Hoyle's time travel science fiction adventure is a modern relative of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

Solar beams plays havoc with terrestrial England is in the '60's, but WWI is still raging in western Europe, Greece is in the golden age of Pericles, while the United States is some thousands of years in the future; and Russia and Asia are reduced to a glass-like plain, fused by the burnt-out sun of a far distant future.

The central themes are time and the meaning of consciousness. The heroes are a pianist-composer and his scientist friend. The dramatic highpoint of the book is a magnificent, almost idyllic section on the life and music of the future, in which one can almost hear the compositions of two rivals as they compete in improvisations.