October the First is Too Late

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Fred Hoyle, f.r.s., well known as an astronomer, writer, broadcaster, and television personality, was born at Bingley, Yorkshire, in 1915 and educated at Bingley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, he was a university lecturer in mathematics from 1945 to 1958, when he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, a post he held until 1973. He has been Professor of Astronomy at the Royal Institution of Great Britain since 1969. Since 1956 he has been a staff member at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, where he is able to use the world's largest reflector telescopes. He is visiting Professor of Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology.

His other publications include The Nature of the Universe (1950; a Pelican), A Decade of Decision (1953), Frontiers of Astronomy (1956), Of Men and Galaxies (1965), and Man in the Universe (1966). His other novels are The Black Cloud (1957), Ossian's Ride (1959), Fifth Planet (1963; with G. Hoyle), Seven Steps to the Sun (1970; with G. Hoyle), The Molecule Men (1971; with G. Hoyle) and The Inferno (1973). Fred Hoyle, who expresses himself at one and the same time with the precision of a scientist and the bluntness of a Yorkshireman, has also published a play, Rockets in Ursa Major (1962), and is the joint author of A for Andromeda (1962). He was knighted in 1972.

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Fred Hoyle

October the First
is Too Late

Penguin Books

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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, England

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First published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1966
Published in Penguin Books 1968
Reprinted 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976

Made and printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd,
Bungay, Suffolk
Set in Linotype Times

This book is sold subject to the condition that
it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent,
re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without
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To the Reader

The ‘science’ in this book is mostly
scaffolding for the story, story-telling in
the traditional sense. However, the discussions
of the significance of time and of the
meaning of consciousness are intended to be
quite serious, as also are the contents of
chapter fourteen.

Fred Hoyle, 14 July 1965

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