In his new book the author of We Are Not The First and Atlantis turns his attention to the nature and enigmas of time. Time, he argues, is not an abstraction: yesterday and tomorrow are as real as today. To illustrate his thesis, he quotes a number of temporal anomalies and poses some highly provocative questions.
Is it true that astronauts in an interstellar rocket will travel straight into the future? How is it that when an empty parking lot was photographed with a special infra-red camera, the developed film showed cars that had been there before, thus photographing the past?
Did ancient Egyptian sages leave a coded forecast of all future events from 100BC to 2100AD? How in modern times have prophets from Nostradamus to Jeane Dixon predicted future events with such uncanny accuracy?
Can the Time Barrier be broken? Is Time Television a scientific possibility? These and many other equally fascinating problems are answered in this book, written on that thin borderline which separates science from science fiction, fact from fantasy.

First published in Great Britain by Sphere Books Ltd 1974
© Andrew Tomas 1974

Why did the Aztecs constantly await the visitations of supreme rulers from an island in the east? Why did the ancient Egyptians believe that their culture-bearer, Thoth, had come from a land in the Western Sea? Andrew Tomas suggests that this land to the east of Mexico and to the west of Egypt was Plato's Atlantis, called Aztlan by the Central Americans.
Why are the sites of London and Paris not buried under ice as they were twelve thousand years ago? Why did the climate of the Atlantic basin suddenly warm up? Because the sinking of Atlantis removed the barrier which had blocked the northward course of the warm Gulf Stream and thus provided the present-day 'central heating' of Europe and America.
In antiquity one can find evidence of progressive scientific concepts. Their prescence can be explained by a legacy left from a highly technological civilization which disappeared without a trace to live on only in the folk memories of all peoples.

First published in Great Britain in 1972 by Robert Hale & Co.
© Editions Robert Laffont 1972
First Sphere Books edition 1973