Element 79

Copyright

Although Fred Hoyle was an author of some renown as well as being a rather famous scientist, as of January 2014 Element 79 appears to have been out of print since about 1972 and was never published in electronic form. In those 40-odd years only two of the stories have been anthologised, none more recently than 1986.

The book on your screen is based on the text of a medium-quality conversion of a widely available PDF file containing images of the book’s pages. This version was created as an ePUB from the ground up and was fairly thoroughly proofread against a copy of the same (1967 New American Library hardback “Book Club”) edition.

The editor has endeavoured to provide the public with a copy that can pass as near-retail grade and, having no delusions regarding the legality of the enterprise, asserts no rights. The work’s copyright holders are encouraged to release the work into the public domain earlier than the year 2072 and/or to use this copy as the basis for an affordably priced electronic edition. Readers are encouraged to acquire such an affordably priced legal copy if and when one becomes available.

Copyright © 1967 by Fred Hoyle

Cover design by Stanislaw Zagorski

Zoomen was previously published in the March 1967 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Blackmail was previously published in the February 1967 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.