John Elliot Bücher

This text celebrates the 150th anniversary of the opening of the major part of the London to Southampton, demonstrating it was not all plain sailing. Retelling in words and pictures the full story of the smallest of the four major companies of the Grouping era, with contributions from experts in all fields including many who worked on the line. The Southern devloped its own touch of magic, created the world's largest suburban electrification, and increased its passengers by 50%, despite the depression and road competition.

The Andromeda Breakthrough is a sequel to the popular BBC TV science fiction serial A for Andromeda, written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. Kidnapped by Intel, John Fleming, the hero of the first serial, and Andromeda, the artificially constructed human, are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country, where a duplicate of the machine he designed has been built by Intel. After many dangers, he finds both the reason for the original message having been sent and the means to bring the machine under human control.

A new radio telescope picks up from the constellation of Andromeda a complex series of signals which prove to be a programme for a giant computer. After the computer is built it begins to relay information from Andromeda. Scientists find themselves possessing knowledge previously unknown to mankind, knowledge that could threaten the security of human life itself.

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