October the First Is Too Late Author:Fred Hoyle Imagine yourself suddenly and without warning catapulted into the distant past or into the far-off future. — October The First Is Too Late unfolds the incredible adventures on a planet twisted by time splits. The familiar world of the 1960's has vanished everywhere except in England. In Western Europe World War 1 is still raging,Greece is in the ... more »Golden Years of Pericles, America is thousands of years into the future, while Russia and Asia are nothing but a glasslike plain incapable of sustaining life - the final phase before the end of the earth as we knew it.« less