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The Incandescent Ones (Penguin science fiction)

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Fred Hoyle is a story teller who invents stories based in scientific fact and when he writes with his son, their characters have greater depth. The world the Hoyles' create in this novel is set in a technically plausible future and deals with an on-going interest of Hoyle Senior in the possibilities of extra-terrestrial life and how humanity might react if forced to interact with it.

In this book you will be taken to a world strangely similar to our own, yet with a shadowy presence of alien science and alien politics, hiding just below the surface.

The hero gets involved with this alien culture and discovers remarkable truths about himself and the human condition.

My only real complaint it that it finishes too soon. I was left wondering what would happen after the hero makes contact with these hidden powers, but then again perhaps posing that question was the intent of the book.

It's a good read, well up to the Hoyles' best storytelling standards, but raises more questions that it answers.