Book in Very Good condition.
Book Club Edition.

Good, clean readable copy, some damage to dust cover.

The Molecule Men" by Sir Fred Hoyle and Mr. Geoffrey Hoyle is a most entertaining read. The main characteristic of the novels written by the Hoyles is that their science fiction generally has tremendous credibility in that they display clear linkages to science fact. However, when we see the villain of the piece, R. A. Adcock turn into a swarm of bees, then, at other parts in the story, into a white Pyrenean dog and afterwards, a white elephant, the reader could well be forgiven for a reaction which entailed the utterance "aw come on!" This expression of disbelief is soon abated when the main character in the story, Dr. John West, explains to Inspector Harrison that chemically a human being can be represented by a bag of coal, half a dozen cylinders of liquid air, a sack full of garden soil and a tank of water. Nature makes the oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and various other minerals into a human being by arranging these elements in the appropriate order. The plan for all living creatures is the genetic code. The materials remain the same, only they are used and arranged in different ways. Adcock represents a creature which has the ability to change its set of genetic instructions and so transform itself into any living creature. After this explanation, we soon ditch our initial "aw come on".

There are in fact two novels contained in the book's overall title "The Molecule Men". The second one is entitled "The Monster of Loch Ness". In this story, the authors give us a taste of true Scottish culture as they write about such things as freak weather conditions, a ceilidh and a kelpie. The main character, Tom Cochrane is a retired Edinburgh University geography lecturer. The most surprising thing about this story is that the Hoyles have a completely different take on what the legendary Loch Ness Monster actually is. No doubt most readers' anticipation of the Loch Ness phenomenon is of some gigantic, pre-historic, dinosaur type creature emerging terrifyingly from the depths of Loch Ness and frightening the wits out of all and sundry in its vicinity. However, the Hoyles present the mystery of Loch Ness as a form of extraterrestrial life which wanted the loch's waters to re-charge itself. The extraterrestrial dimension to the Loch Ness Monster may, like the molecule men, seem somewhat fantastical until we consider the traditional idea of "Nessie" from the point of view of the biological constraints nature imposes on ecosystems. There would have to be many "Nessies". Over the centuries there would be an exponential growth in the family of monsters inhabiting the loch. The resources of the loch's ecosystem would plainly and simply be insufficient to sustain creatures of such physical proportions. Although the mystery surrounding Loch Ness is unlikely to be connected to extraterrestrial activity, an explanation of the Loch Ness phenomenon will have to be sought in areas which exclude the traditional idea of exotic pre-historic monsters.

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