Name Geoffrey Hoyle Role Science-fiction writer | Parents Fred Hoyle | |
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Books Fifth Planet, 2010: living in the future, Seven Steps to the Sun, Rockets in Ursa Major, Into Deepest Space | ||
Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942) is an English science fiction writer, best known for the works which he co-wrote with his father, the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-written 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 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:
With Janice Robertson
As sole author -