What would happen if…? The classic question of science fiction. Supposing the molecular structure of living things could be reshaped: a swarm of bees, a defendant in court, a herd of elephants, a Prime Minister…Amazingly, Dr John West finds just this happening as Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle develop their thesis in the hilarious - and frightening -Molecule Men.The same pawky Yorkshire humour illuminates this volume’s second novel. Here the waters of Loch Ness, and of Loch Mullardoch, are inexplicably warming up. Tom Cochrane, an independent scientist, determines to find out why.

Young Peter, a student of Byzantine Art at Moscow University, receives, through a cryptic sentence in a lecture, a message to buy two books of his choice at a specific hour in the University bookshop. When he opens the package, a third book has been included. It is this third hook which sends Peter on a series of adventures leading to the unravelling of a mysterious power source guiding the destinies of planet Earth. His quest is also intimately linked with his father’s baffling disappearance.

Novelisation of the BBC TV Series A for Andromeda

Another star is due to pass close to the sun, close enough for conventional spacecraft to reach it. The first planets observed are four gas-giants, but then an inner 'Fifth Planet' is found. Signs of chlorophyll are detected, suggesting that it supports life. Rival Soviet and US expeditions are launched to visit it.

Can immortal man ever outwit the airlines? What if dumb animals could be trained to “appreciate” the communications media of the human world? How does agent Number 38, Zone 11, respond when he sights a U.F.O.? What happens to Slippage City when the Devil decides to think big? These—plus a remarkable sex comedy—are some of the intriguing themes of Element 79, the new Hoyle galaxy that ranges the full scientific spectrum and beyond into the furthest reaches of the imagination. Author Fred Hoyle is an internationally renowned astronomer and much of his fiction is rooted in the realm of what is possible—scientifically and psychologically—on earth and in space, in the present and the future. His vision of his fellow humans is disquieting, hilarious, and sometimes frightening; his social commentary is often etched in acid. In Element 79 Mr. Hoyle steps forward to take a backward glance at our world—deftly balancing his followers between the unreal and the real, between a chuckle and a shudder.