D. G. Compton

Escape Into Tomorrow The Penheniot Experimental Research Village was a top-secret community with an elaborate defense system to keep away prying eyes. Inside the walls men rushed ahead with practical experiments to develop a means of time travel, while outside the everyday world fell victim to more and more plagues, strikes and rioting. The world was on the brink of chaos. Could the small band of scientists and chrononauts at Penheniot Village find a safe method of escape into the future before the violence and death outside destroyed them too? CHRONOCULES is a fascinating, original novel of mankind in crisis, by one of the most highlv praised science fiction novelists in years, author of SYNTHAJOY, THE SILENT MULTITUDE and THE STEEL CROCODILE. "Work of this calibre is what science fiction is for." - James Blish

[From back cover] In 1933, the physicist Kapitza ordered, for the facade of his new laboratory, a crocodile's head, in steel. The crocodile of science. The crocodile cannot turn its head. Life science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws. The inevitable logic of discovery marches to inescapable conclusions. But must it? Can the future be manipulated? At the Colindale Institute they knew that control was possible. By the Institute. But only if the fact of control and the techniques of control were kept absolutely secret.