October the First Is Too Late

Fred Hoyle

earliest edition we have, 1966 Baen, 1985 paperback

Valancourt 20th Century Classics

Professor Hoyle's sf adventure is a modern relative of Wells' The Time Machine. A transmission of solar beams plays havoc with time. England is in the 1960s but WWI is still raging in western Europe. Greece is in the golden age of Pericles, America some thousands of years in the future; while Russia and Asia are a glass-like plain, its surface fused together by the burnt-out sun of a far distant future. The central t...

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October the First Is Too Late paperback · 2015 · Valancourt Books · 9781943910106
October the First Is Too Late paperback · 1985 · Baen · 9780671559434
October thefirst is too late edition · 1980 · Remploy · 199 pages
October the First Is Too Late paperback · 1971 · Penguin · 176 pages · 9780140028867
October the first is too late. edition · 1966 · Heinemann · 208 pages
October the First is Too Late hardcover · 1966 · Harper collins · 9780060028459

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