The Egg-Shaped Thing

‘Both humanly and scientifically plausible. Read and be scared’ THE SUN

Three screaming cats, a no-entry road sign, a pair of swans, three dead trees, two craggy rocks, a blue pool within a huge subterranean hall… What does it all mean? James Fulbright wants to know – because unless he finds out, Time will wrap round itself.

The Egg-Shaped Thing is a novel about Einstein’s Law of Relativity let loose. It is an adventure story in which the enemy is a twist in space, brought about by the immersion in that space of a terrifying object of indefinable dimensions.

Praise for Christopher Hodder-Williams:

‘It is fast-moving, at times almost bafflingly so, and has this author’s customary display of technical expertise’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘… secures for its author a comfortable place among the best catastrophe writers - Verne, Wyndham and Wells’ - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Christopher Hodder-Williams was an English writer, mainly of science fiction, but he wrote novels about aviation and espionage as well. Before his career in writing, Hodder-Williams joined the army in 1944, and served in the Middle East and lived in Kenya and New York, later settling in the UK. Many of his books are early examples of what would later be called techno-thrillers. He also worked as a composer and lyricist, and wrote numerous plays for television.


Genre: Science Fiction