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0140051333

(ISBN-13: 9780140051339)

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The Inferno

Fast-paced novel written with wry humour by the father-son team, set in London and Scotland, in Australia and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, about facing imminent natural catastrophe, from a quasar in the sky.

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About the author:

Professor Sir Fred Hoyle was one of the most distinguished, creative, and controversial scientists of the twentieth century. He was a Fellow of St John’s College (1939-1972, Honorary Fellow 1973-2001), was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957, held the Plumian Chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy (1958-1972), established the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge (now part of the Institute of Astronomy), and (in 1972) received a knighthood for his services to astronomy.

Hoyle was a keen mountain climber, an avid player of chess, a science fiction writer, a populariser of science, and the man who coined the phrase 'The Big Bang'.

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Quotes from Fred Hoyle:

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." — Fred Hoyle

"When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow." — Fred Hoyle

"A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe." — Fred Hoyle (The Intelligent Universe: A New View of Creation and Evolution)

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Reviews from the press:

"An adventure story with a new twist on the post-Holocaust survival theme. Cameron, an eminent physicist, is instrumental in the discovery of a new supernova. Aficionados will be in awe of the expert presentation of science and mathematics used in the preliminary study. Cameron also discovers that within ten days a blast of devastating radiation will hit Earth…

Here's high-level astrophysics entertainment and instruction in one package“ - Sunday Times

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Reviews from readers:

"I'm more into fantasy than SF, but enjoy the Hoyles. Interesting science. Why not a five? I don't like the typical Hoyle protagonist. Brilliant, decisive, practical; also short tempered, violent and rude. Not only doesn't suffer fools gladly, but loves to rub their inferiority in their faces." - Dwer

"I thought it was a good expose revealing what would be the likely outcome if the earth was caught up in a global event. Some would move forward some would exploit the situation by moving back to a dog-eat-dog kind of existence. I would recommend this book, although it starts slowly by the end it all comes together." - Almustafa Couch
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