{"product_id":"the-hopkins-manuscript","title":"The Hopkins Manuscript","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\" class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" height=\"480x480\" width=\"480x480\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/url_ebe5f1c3-b915-4684-8d7d-d3f8aadf4388.jpg?v=1593109436\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePREFACE BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK\u003cbr\u003e440pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155486\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis early piece of climate fiction, by the author of the play \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJourney's End \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealso of Persephone favourites \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fortnight in September\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreengates\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003efirst published in 1939\u003c\/span\u003e, imagines what would happen if the moon crashed into the earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresented as a lost manuscript written by a retired Hampshire school teacher named Edwin Hopkins, we watch through his eyes as the moon veers off course, draws slowly closer to the earth, and finally crashes into it on May 3rd, 1946. Because it falls into the Atlantic Ocean, much of humanity survives - only to generate new disasters. But this is not science fiction in the mode of H G Wells's \u003cem\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e; it is a novel about human nature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrator Hopkins's greatest interest in life is his Bantam hens; rather self-important and lacking much sense of humour, he nevertheless emerges as an increasingly sympathetic and credible character, the ordinary man with whom we very much identify as Sherriff describes the small Hampshire village trying to prepare itself in its last days. We defy any of our readers not to be overwhelmed by the scene when the villagers staunchly play a final game of cricket by the light of the moon that 'hung like a great amber, pock-marked lamp above a billiard-table, so vast and enveloping that the little white-clad cricketers moved without shadows to their appointed places on the field.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSherriff's writing about this catastrophe is so convincing that \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ein our edition of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Hopkins Manuscript\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e we have also included a scientific explanation of the events in the book that was originally written by the Big Bang scientist George Gamow for a 1963 reprint. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe endpapers are taken from 'Wangle', a 1932 dyed cotton three colour print by Enid Marx.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"RC Sherriff","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098768691507,"sku":"vpo1789694516529","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098768724275,"sku":"wkf1789694516530","price":29.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098768757043,"sku":"vpf1789694516531","price":40.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098768789811,"sku":"kgj1789694516532","price":48.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/the-hopkins-manuscript_1.jpg?v=1789694520","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/the-hopkins-manuscript","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}