The Inferno
by Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoyle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- condition - label on front of jacket, light jacket edge wear/Very Good- condition - label on front of jacket, light jacket edge wear
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
The Inferno by Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoyle
Publisher: Harper & Row, 1973
Harper & Row. Book Club Edition (BCE) #5996
Paperback
5.75 x 8.5 inches, 186 pages
Cameron, a tall, testy, whisky-drinking, nationalist-minded, Scottish physicist, may not have been an astronomer, but he knew the off things in the sky when he saw them. From an Australian mountaintop where he was advising on the location of a radiotelescope he saw what looked like Mars, in the wrong spot in the sky. But it wasn't Mars at all, it was a supernova ... no, not a supernova but a quasar. Knowing what would happen, Cameron dashed home to Scotland and found himself at a crossroads of his life. In the face of total catastrophe, and of intense heat, darkness and rain, he took over as natural leader with both the north and south of the United Kingdom turning to him for help. Sir Fred Hoyle, world-renowned astrophysicist, and his son, Geoffrey Hoyle, have set their newest science fiction thriller not only in London and Scotland, but also at the University of Charlottesville, and in Australia as well. The result is an intriguing, fast-paced novel written with a wry humour and offering some fascinating glimpses of and gibes at astronomy.
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- Seller
- Worldwide Collectibles (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 325202305
- Title
- The Inferno
- Author
- Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoyle
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- condition - label on front of jacket, light jacket edge wear
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good- condition - label on front of jacket, light jacket edge wear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition (BCE)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1973
- Pages
- 186
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...