- Hardcover: 183 pages
- Publisher: Heinemann; First Edition edition (1977)
- ISBN-10: 006011956X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060119560
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,603,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
Fred Hoyle is a story teller who invents stories based in scientific fact and when he writes with his son, their characters have greater depth. The world the Hoyles' create in this novel is set in a technically plausible future and deals with an on-going interest of Hoyle Senior in the possibilities of extra-terrestrial life and how humanity might react if forced to interact with it.
In this book you will be taken to a world strangely similar to our own, yet with a shadowy presence of alien science and alien politics, hiding just below the surface.
The hero gets involved with this alien culture and discovers remarkable truths about himself and the human condition.
My only real complaint it that it finishes too soon. I was left wondering what would happen after the hero makes contact with these hidden powers, but then again perhaps posing that question was the intent of the book.
It's a good read, well up to the Hoyles' best storytelling standards, but raises more questions that it answers.
In this book you will be taken to a world strangely similar to our own, yet with a shadowy presence of alien science and alien politics, hiding just below the surface.
The hero gets involved with this alien culture and discovers remarkable truths about himself and the human condition.
My only real complaint it that it finishes too soon. I was left wondering what would happen after the hero makes contact with these hidden powers, but then again perhaps posing that question was the intent of the book.
It's a good read, well up to the Hoyles' best storytelling standards, but raises more questions that it answers.
Format:Paperback
Peter, an American student of Byzantine art at Moscow University, becomes embroiled in a tangled web of East/West intrigue after he receives a coded message from one of his professors during a lecture. As the plot thickens and unfolds, Peter soon discovers that what he has got himself landed in is of incredibly greater complexity and unbelievably more far-reaching than the relatively mundane on-going politico/diplomatic game of chess between the Soviets and the West.
What exactly is the mysterious "battery" that Peter has to smuggle across the Turkish-Soviet border? It is a contraption of great and profound mystery. Not only is it linked to the power sources that supply the Earth from an unknown source in space, but to the very nature of Peter and his "father" and to who and what they are.
"The Incandescent Ones" is another of Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle's novels where the seemingly impossible becomes possible. However, "The Incandescent Ones" goes that step further and brings even the ridiculously absurd within the confines of perfect credibility. The central character, the art student Peter, is a professional skier who can expertly negotiate his way over the most difficult of snow and ice terrains. But what about skiing over the gas clouds of the atmosphere of the giant planet Jupiter?!! Before one pulls grimaces with the inevitable accompanying "aw come on now", or "now the Hoyles have just taken it a bit too far this time", one should carefully read the technical and scientific explanation rendered by the authors through one of their characters, Edelstam, on how this stupendous feat can actually be accomplished. The reader, when having finished digesting the technical instructions on how to perform this phenomenal act, will surely come away nodding his head and saying, "yes, one day people will skim over the Jovian atmosphere on skis!" A word of warning for the reader though: the book is anything but easy to put down.
What exactly is the mysterious "battery" that Peter has to smuggle across the Turkish-Soviet border? It is a contraption of great and profound mystery. Not only is it linked to the power sources that supply the Earth from an unknown source in space, but to the very nature of Peter and his "father" and to who and what they are.
"The Incandescent Ones" is another of Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle's novels where the seemingly impossible becomes possible. However, "The Incandescent Ones" goes that step further and brings even the ridiculously absurd within the confines of perfect credibility. The central character, the art student Peter, is a professional skier who can expertly negotiate his way over the most difficult of snow and ice terrains. But what about skiing over the gas clouds of the atmosphere of the giant planet Jupiter?!! Before one pulls grimaces with the inevitable accompanying "aw come on now", or "now the Hoyles have just taken it a bit too far this time", one should carefully read the technical and scientific explanation rendered by the authors through one of their characters, Edelstam, on how this stupendous feat can actually be accomplished. The reader, when having finished digesting the technical instructions on how to perform this phenomenal act, will surely come away nodding his head and saying, "yes, one day people will skim over the Jovian atmosphere on skis!" A word of warning for the reader though: the book is anything but easy to put down.
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An Exciting Yarn which ends too soon.
28 Dec 2011
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Fred Hoyle is a story teller who invents stories based in scientific fact and when he writes with his son, their characters have greater depth. The world the Hoyles' create in this novel is set in a technically plausible future and deals with an on-going interest of Hoyle Senior in the possibilities of extra-terrestrial life and how humanity might react if forced to interact with it.
In this book you will be taken to a world strangely similar to our own, yet with a shadowy presence of alien science and alien politics, hiding just below the surface.
The hero gets involved with this alien culture and discovers remarkable truths about himself and the human condition.
My only real complaint it that it finishes too soon. I was left wondering what would happen after the hero makes contact with these hidden powers, but then again perhaps posing that question was the intent of the book.
It's a good read, well up to the Hoyles' best storytelling standards, but raises more questions that it answers.
In this book you will be taken to a world strangely similar to our own, yet with a shadowy presence of alien science and alien politics, hiding just below the surface.
The hero gets involved with this alien culture and discovers remarkable truths about himself and the human condition.
My only real complaint it that it finishes too soon. I was left wondering what would happen after the hero makes contact with these hidden powers, but then again perhaps posing that question was the intent of the book.
It's a good read, well up to the Hoyles' best storytelling standards, but raises more questions that it answers.
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