Geoffrey Hoyle

Geoffrey Hoyle (12 January 1941 - 9 September 2024) was an English science fiction writer, who co-wrote with his father, the astronomer Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-written with his son.^[1]

Biography

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.^{[citation needed]}

He worked as a scientific advisor to some television series such as Timeslip.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, his book 2010: Living in the Future was popularised by a blog^[2] 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.^[3]

Works

(Novels unless otherwise specified)

With his father, Fred Hoyle:

• Fifth Planet (1963)
• 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