October the First is Too Late Author:Fred Hoyle "October the First is Too Late" unfolds the incredible adventures on a plant twisted by time splits. The familiar world of the 1960's has vanished everywhere except in England. In Western Europe WW1 is still raging, Greece is in the Golden Age of Pericles, America is thousands of years into the future, while Russia and Asia are nothing but a gla... more »ss-like plain incapable of sustaining life - the final phase before the end of the earth as we know it.« less