Seven Steps to the Sun
by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle
131 Members (2.38)
On This Page
Description
Mike Jerome, a likeable young TV writer, visits Professor Smitt, a physicist, who gives him an idea for a TV script: using some source of light, perhaps a laser beam, one could reduce the human structure to a form that could be transmitted into the future as electrical pulses - and thus create time travel.On the way home Mike is hit by a taxi, and when he recovers he finds the date is 1979 - ten years in the future. This is but the beginning of a series of bewildering, fascinating ten year show more jumps. Mike is himself living the time change himself At the end of each stop he tries to find his best friend, Pete Jones, a Negro jazz musician. Jumps to 1989, 1999 and so on, take Mike into such far-reaching places as London, the Northern Territory of Australia, California and the Italian Alps, for a rousing series of adventures in all sorts of bizarre circumstances. At the very end of this outstanding science fiction adventure by a noted father-son team, there is a slyly ambiguous twist which leaves the reader wondering... show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
99+ Works 6,153 Members
18 Works 1,379 Members
Some Editions
Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1970
- Epigraph
- 'I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.' Einstein
- Dedication
- For Gram
- First words
- Hot still air hung over the evening rush hour as Mike Jerome walked wearily from the dubbing studio.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'I'm sorry, Mr Jerome, I didn't mean to frighten you,' said Professor Smitt, turning and smiling gently.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 131
- Popularity
- 250,070
- Rating
- (2.38)
- Languages
- English, Italian, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 14
