Quote of the day
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
Geoffrey Hoyle

Born: 1942 (age 83)
Bio: Geoffrey Hoyle 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.
Known for:
- Fifth Planet (1963)
- Rockets in Ursa Major (1969)
- Into Deepest Space (1974)
- Seven Steps to the Sun (1970)
- The Incandescent Ones (1977)