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Title: 88 Gray's Inn Road Title Record # 1133651
Author: William F. Temple
Date: 2000-10-00
Type: COLLECTION
Language: English
Note: Original collection of three stories, one a previously unpublished revision of novella 'Mind Within Mind'. The semi-autobiographical title story describes experiences sharing a flat with Arthur C. Clarke and Maurice K. Hanson.
Synopsis: From the dust jacket flaps: "Science fiction fans of the old school are in for a treat: this first new book of fiction by the celebrated author of The Four-Sided Triangle to appear in many years consists of an unpublished short novel, an unpublished novelette and a hitherto unpublished revision of a short novel first published in the early 1950s. The stories cover the range of William F. Temple's talents, from a rip-roaring piece of pulp sci-fi through his own unique approach to the problems of time travel to a wonderfully funny, yet contemplative and a times poignant semi-autobiographical novel based on his pre-war experiences sharing a flat with Arthur C. Clarke and Maurice K. Hanson. In the latter novel, which gives the book its title, narrator Bill describes how he, Ego (as Clarke was always affectionately known in the world of SF) and Maurice set off to find a flat in London and "furnish" their new abode, how they cope (or fail to cope) with the strange mysteries of the building site at the rear of the block, how their copelessness is maintained at meetings of the British Rocket Society and encounters with such arcane devices as the Coelostat, the Proving Stand and the Duplicator, and how necessary solace is found at the Crimson Cow pub next door. The second novel, "Mind Within Mind", is Temple's revision and updating (done in the early 1960s for Ace but declined by that firm and unpublished until now) of a story printed in cut form in 1949 and in full in 1953. It features a giant tank invading an Ohio town, the first manned flight to the moon, the adventures of two mountaineers who encounter the yeti and advanced, artificially created insects on Everest, and a narrative which painfully reveals a fearful secret menacing all mankind. In the same stream of SF as Childhood's End, its underlying menace may, perhaps, have inspired the film Forbidden Planet. The novelette "Always Afternoon" is a love story which gives us Temple's own unique spin on the theme of time travel and its paradoxes. The volume, profusely illustrated by the celebrated fantasy artist Jim Cawthorn, is published with the blessing of Temple's old friend Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, who has written a preface especially for the book. With an introduction giving hitherto unrevealed insights into the life and work of William F. Temple."
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
88 Gray's Inn Road 2000-10-00 William F. Temple Andrew Crosse at the Sansato Press  
£25.00?£: UK pound
xxiv+
244
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jim Cawthorn Checkmark
88 Gray's Inn Road 2000-10-00 William F. Temple Andrew Crosse at the Sansato Press  
£75.00?£: UK pound
xxiv+
244
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jim Cawthorn  
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