Decades Ago

Sf readers remember books that they read decades ago. In the mid-60s, I read a yellow-covered Gollancz novel that addressed time travel consistently but can remember neither title nor author's name. The hero, having tangled with some opponents in the future, killed them in the present after all of them had returned to the present. Then he reflected that these guys who were now dead would reappear briefly in the future. I think that he compared it to a piece of music being played once again.

Decades after originally reading them, I have acquired copies of:

World In Eclipse by William Dexter
Children Of The Void by William Dexter
Seed Of Light by Edmund Cooper

- and discussed them on this blog, comparing them with works by Poul Anderson.

A slightly different, although substantially the same, experience is to reread books that we have had on our shelves but have not reread for decades. I have done this with:

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
October The First Is Too Late by Fred Hoyle

For both these Hoyle novels, see Between Galaxies. Into Deepest Space, also mentioned in that post, should arrive here today:

in Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, a relativistic spaceship flies between galaxies and enters the next universe;

in Into Deepest Space, a relativistic spaceship flies between galaxies and passes through a quasar into a parallel universe.