October the First Is Too Late

By Fred Hoyle,

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Renowned scientist John Sinclair and his old school friend Richard, a celebrated composer, are enjoying a climbing expedition in the Scottish Highlands when Sinclair disappears without a trace for thirteen hours. When he resurfaces with no explanation for his disappearance, he has undergone an uncanny alteration: a birthmark on his…

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Hoyle was a genuine leading scientist, and I recognize his views on how the science community works, including how the hacks behave. He combines the "slices of spacetime" concept from relativity and the many-worlds interpretation from quantum mechanics to construct a story where Earth suddenly gets fragmented into a number of different time zones. Like Wells in The Time Machine Hoyle proposes how the future will turn out. To keep the science simple, the story is recorded by a composer.

I am also involved in quantum theory, I write science fiction, and I compose music as a hobby. Leaving aside…

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