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The Year Dot
The Government decided that Christopher Jay was an enemy of the people. In fact, he was an enemy of the Government, and that meant he had to die.
So Jay became a casualty of the New Capital Punishment Act, and was duly executed on a series of trumped-up charges of treason.
But this was also the age of the Blind Scientist, the Transplanter, the Organ Switchers and the breeders of babies in bottles. And once Jay’s organs had been harvested, they found some very interesting places to resume life.
They also enabled Jay to fulfil his final wish—that if he was to die, then the entire planet was going to die with him.
This was the time of reckoning.
This was the Year Dot.
So Jay became a casualty of the New Capital Punishment Act, and was duly executed on a series of trumped-up charges of treason.
But this was also the age of the Blind Scientist, the Transplanter, the Organ Switchers and the breeders of babies in bottles. And once Jay’s organs had been harvested, they found some very interesting places to resume life.
They also enabled Jay to fulfil his final wish—that if he was to die, then the entire planet was going to die with him.
This was the time of reckoning.
This was the Year Dot.
184 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1972
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About the author
John Lymington
28 books9 followersJohn Lymington is a pseudonym for author John Newton Chance.
John Newton Chance was born in London in 1911 and educated at a private school there. He went to a Technical College with the intention of becoming a Civil Engineer, but left that to become a Quantity Surveyor. While surveying, he began to write for the BBC, and on his twenty-first birthday gave up all honest work to become a writer. The first novel was published in 1935, was hailed as a masterpiece and, like so many such, grossed more glory than gain. But it established the writer's career, which he has followed ever since with the exception of the four war years. When his war ended, he and his wife came to live in Hampshire where their first son was horn. Seventeen books later a second son arrived, and six books further on, the third came along. Among the books of the time there were a number for children, and the adult stories were published here, in America and on the Continent; some were filmed and a number broadcast.
source: his autobiography Yellow Belly
He would eventually write over 160 books under several names. Pseudonyms used by Chance throughout his career included:
John Drummond, John Lymington, David C. Newton, and Jonathan Chance. He was also one of the writers who used name the Desmond Reid which was one of the many personas responsible for the 'Sexton Blake' series that spanned decades.
John Newton Chance was born in London in 1911 and educated at a private school there. He went to a Technical College with the intention of becoming a Civil Engineer, but left that to become a Quantity Surveyor. While surveying, he began to write for the BBC, and on his twenty-first birthday gave up all honest work to become a writer. The first novel was published in 1935, was hailed as a masterpiece and, like so many such, grossed more glory than gain. But it established the writer's career, which he has followed ever since with the exception of the four war years. When his war ended, he and his wife came to live in Hampshire where their first son was horn. Seventeen books later a second son arrived, and six books further on, the third came along. Among the books of the time there were a number for children, and the adult stories were published here, in America and on the Continent; some were filmed and a number broadcast.
source: his autobiography Yellow Belly
He would eventually write over 160 books under several names. Pseudonyms used by Chance throughout his career included:
John Drummond, John Lymington, David C. Newton, and Jonathan Chance. He was also one of the writers who used name the Desmond Reid which was one of the many personas responsible for the 'Sexton Blake' series that spanned decades.
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