# October the First Is Too Late

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- Authors: [Fred Hoyle](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-hoyle)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-08-25

## Description

The Yorkshire Moors below Mickle Fell in August would seem a safe enough place to be, yet it was there that Richard's old schoolfriend, John Sinclair, disappeared for 13 hours. Two days later, while bathing in a mountain stream, Richard noticed that a strawberry birthmark was missing from Sinclair's back. Climbing, music, ancient Greece and the year 5000 AD: all these play a part in Fred Hoyle's far-reaching and witty science fiction book, which teems with arresting ideas. Its central themes are time and the meaning of consciousness; around them the author of The Black Cloud and Ossian's Ride has spun a glittering web of adventure and logical surmise. In this world of dual personalities and shifting time scales it is entirely plausible that October the first should have been too late.

## Editions

### October the First Is Too Late

- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-081-3
- Published: 2016-08-25
- Language: en_GB