The Hammond Conjecture – M B Reed 


 

The Hammond Conjecture is an alternative history novel which explores themes of memory, identity and historical narrative. It is also a lot of fun.
Are you sure you know who you are? If your memories disappeared and were replaced with someone else’s, would you still be you? And what if those memories were not just from another person - but of a different world?
London 1982 – perhaps. Regaining consciousness in an isolation ward of catatonic patients, glimpsing the outside world only through a television news bulletin, that is the dilemma facing Hugh Hammond.
Gradually Hugh’s memories return – of his life as an MI6 officer a decade earlier. But in a world where Britain has been locked in a lonely Cold War against a Fascist-dominated Europe but is now being wooed by the Third Reich to join its European Community.
Are his memories false: delusions, or implanted as part of a mind-control experiment? Or was the television news fake – and if so, why? And what is the role of Carlton, the shadowy Intelligence officer who delivered him there?
Hugh types out his recollections: an adventure which takes him from an opium den in Limehouse, via a hippie encampment in British-occupied North France, to a State Reception for the Deputy Führer in the Durbar Court in Whitehall, and to a Le Carré-style climax in the divided city of Paris.

SPSFC Year 2021

Subgenres: Adventure, Alternative History / Parallel Universe, Cyberpunk, Hard SF, Humorous, Metaphysical & Visionary, Techno Thriller, Time Travel

Date first published:  October 22, 2019

On Kindle Unlimited: No

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Twitter: @MBReed16

Website: https://mbreed.co.uk

Biography: Dr Martin B Reed retired from the University of Bath in 2018. In a career spanning over forty years he has been a Lecturer in Mathematics in universities around the world, including in Lesotho, Swaziland and Papua New Guinea, before returning to the UK, where he worked at Oxford and Brunel universities – Oxbridge and Uxbridge – before joining Bath University in 2005. He retired in 2018 to spend more time compiling The Pentacle Papers. He has published The Hammond Conjecture, and is working on a prequel titled The Events of 1968: An Alternative History.

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Cover artist name: Sunny

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Editor/Formatter’s name: M B Reed

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