Geoffrey Hoyle

Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942) is an English science fiction writer, best known for the works which he co-authored with his father, the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-authored with his son. [1]

He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and then entered Cambridge where he read Economics. After 1964, Hoyle worked in London in the field of modern communications and the film/television industry. Unlike his father, he is not a scientist, and contributed to the more "human" side of their co-authored novels - however, he did work as a "scientific advisor" to some series such as Timeslip.

In 2010, his book 2010: Living in the Future was popularised by a blog which compared Hoyle's 38-year-old predictions with the reality of modern life. This led to a Facebook campaign to track down Hoyle and talk to him about his visions.

Works

(Novels unless otherwise specified)

With his father, Fred Hoyle:

• Fifth Planet, 1963
• October the First is Too Late, 1966
• Rockets in Ursa Major, 1969 (based on a play by Fred)
• Seven Steps to the Sun, 1970
• The Inferno, 1973
• The Molecule Men and the Monster of Loch Ness, 1973 (short story collection)
• Into Deepest Space, 1974
• The Incandescent Ones, 1977
• The Westminster Disaster, 1978
• Commonsense in Nuclear Energy, 1980 (non-fiction)
• The Professor Gamma series
  • The Energy Pirate, 1982
  • The Frozen Planet of Azuron, 1982
  • The Giants of Universal Park, 1982
  • The Planet of Death, 1982

With Janice Robertson

• Ask Me Why, 1976 (non-fiction)

As sole author -

• 2010: Living in the Future, 1972 (illustrated by Alasdair Anderson)
• Disaster, 1975
• Flight (Achievements), 1984 (illustrated by Gerald Witcomb)

References

• Fifth Planet cover notes
• Fantastic Fiction entry
• Sci Fan bibliography

External links

• Books with son Geoffrey
• Geoffrey Hoyle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• 2010: Living in the future: the book