The Fall of Chronopolis

by Barrington J. Bayley

There is real time... and there is potential time. By controlling the difference, the Chronotic Empire came into existence and maintained itself over a thousand years of human history. Its Time Fleets, armadas of time-travelling fortresses, patrolled its temporal borders relentlessly, blotting out potential-time deviations, erasing errors of history that might undermine the empire. But nevertheless the empire's days were numbered, for somewhere in its own future was the century of the Hegemony, its implacable enemy.

Genres: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fiction, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy

175 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1974

About the author

Barrington J. Bayley published work principally under his own name but also using the pseudonyms ofAlan Aumbry, Michael Barrington (with Michael Moorcock), John Diamond and P.F. Woods.

Bayley was born in Birmingham and educated in Newport, Shropshire. He worked in a number of jobs before joining the Royal Air Force in 1955; his first published story, "Combat's End", had seen print the year before in UK-only publication Vargo Statten Magazine.

During the 1960s, Bayley's short stories featured regularly in New Worlds magazine and later in its successor, the paperback anthologies of the same name. He became friends with New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock, who largely instigated science fiction's New Wave movement. Bayley himself was part of the movement.

Bayley's first book, Star Virus, was followed by more than a dozen other novels; his downbeat, gloomy approach to novel writing has been cited as influential on the works of M. John Harrison, Brian Stableford and Bruce Sterling.

Reviews

[Andrea Rossi]

romanzo breve sul viaggio nel tempo, originale e avvincente, i nodi temporali che differenziano le varie epoche storiche dello stesso mondo sono una genialata...