October the First Is Too Late

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October the First Is Too Late

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Author(s):

Fred Hoyle

First Pub:

1966

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2021

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 15

1 - Prelude

2 - Fugue

3 - Intermezzo

4 - Tempo di Minuetto

5 - Allegro Assai

6 - Agitato

7 - Adagio

8 - Allegro Molto e con Brio

9 - Andante con Moto

10 - Entracte

11 - Vivace

12 - Largo Appassionato

13 - Allegretto e Sempre Cantabile

14 - Grave e Mesto

15 - Coda

Internal ID:

2597

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

"I had been invited to compose a piece for the Festival of Contemporary Music, Cologne, 1966."

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

"The irony and tragedy is that to the two of us it was the world of 1966 that was the cul-de-sac."

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

I picked this book up at a used book store in 2019. I remember seeing this is my friend's room back in high school and thought it had a funny clock on the cover and I'd like to know more about that. Just now getting around to purchasing it. Now - to read it...

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Added: 11-Nov-2019

Last Updated: 16-Sep-2024

01-Jan-1966

Fawcett Books

Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-1966

Format:

Paperback

Cover Price:

$0.75

Pages*:

160

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 26 Feb 2021 - 9 Mar 2021

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1810

Publisher:

Fawcett Books

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Imagine yourself suddenly and
without warning catapulted
into the distant past or into
the far-off future...

OCTOBER THE FIRST IS TOO LATE unfolds the incredible adventures on a planet twisted by time splits. The familiar world of the 1960's has vanished everywhere except in England. In Western Europe World War I is still raging. Greece is in the Golden Age of Pericles. America is thousands of years into the future, while Russia and Asia are nothing but a glasslike plain incabable of sustaining life - the final phase before the end of the earth as we know it.

Against this macabre backdrop of co-existing time spheres, two young men risk their lives to find the truth. But the truth is in the mind of the beholder. And who is to say who are the dreamers and who are the dreamed? You and I, dear reader, may indeed be shadows, existing solely in the mind of some traveler through time...

Only a writer with the unique talent and imagination of Fred Hoyle, a world-famous astronomer and astrophysicist, could create such an authentic and mind-chilling novel as
October the First Is Too Late

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Notes and Comments:

01-Jan-1966
Fawcett Books
Paperback

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