The Hopkins Manuscript

The Hopkins Manuscript is a social-political dystopian novel published by R. C. Sherriff during 1939.[1] Originally titled An Ordinary Man, the novel was published with its present title by Victor Gollancz, then republished by The Macmillan Company during 1963 and by Persephone Books during 2002.[2][3]

Dust cover of 1st edition, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939.

The story is set in England, where the main character, Edgar Hopkins, writes a narrative about a catastrophe in which the moon collides with the Earth, and his life afterward. The foreword has the perspective of an academic society 1,000 years in the future finding the manuscript as an historical document.[4]

References
  1. FitzHerbert, Claudia (5 September 2009). "Endpaper" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  2. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/the-hopkins-manuscript.html
  3. "Publisher Gollancz: Books Published in 1939". www.isfdb.org.
  4. "Books: Moonstruck". Time. July 31, 1939.
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