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Original Title:	The Hopkins Manuscript
ISBN:	1903155487 (ISBN13: 9781903155486)
Edition Language:	English

The Hopkins Manuscript

R.C. Sherriff

Paperback | Pages: 440 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 269 Users | 49 Reviews

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Title	:	The Hopkins Manuscript
Author	:	R.C. Sherriff
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 440 pages
Published	:	2005 by Persephone Books (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Classics

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In The Hopkins Manuscript we watch through his eyes as the moon veers off course, draws slowly closer to the earth, and finally crashes into it on May 3rd 1946. Because it falls into the Atlantic much of humanity survives – only to generate new disasters. But this is not science fiction in the mode of H G Wells's The War of the Worlds; it is a novel about human nature.
The 'manuscript' was named after its 'author', a retired Hampshire schoolmaster whose greatest interest in life is his Bantam hens; rather self-important and lacking much sense of humour, Edgar Hopkins nevertheless emerges as an increasingly sympathetic and credible character, the ordinary man with whom we very much identify as Sherriff describes the small Hampshire village trying to prepare itself in its last days. In Journey's End he evoked the trench experience as he had lived it; in The Hopkins Manuscript he describes the catastrophe as he might have lived it.

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Funny, tragic, and so bloody prescient. In a foreword we learn that the last inhabitants of Great Britain starved to death 1000 years ago. Following a Cataclysm in which the moon came out of its orbit and crashed into the Earth, the nations of the East spread into devastated mainland Europe, but not as far as England, because it was thought too damp. But two years previously an expedition into the island's interior discovered the Hopkins Manuscript, and this is what we read as we go on. Edgar

I shouldn't have been surprised, but this is about THE HUMAN CONDITION and not really about the moon crashing into the Earth at all. Definitely a good story-though oddly paced. The choice of lead character was interesting and it was hilarious that he spent as much time worrying about his stamp collection and prized chickens as he did the end of the world. I wanted to know more about what was going on in the world, but I respect the author's decision to keep the scope so limited.

A science fiction story about the moon crashing into the earth....or is it? You might read this story as the politics of the first half of the 20th century, the great cataclysm of the moon crashing into the earth is World War 1, the Era of Recovery, is the post war years, the war between the Europeans is World War 2 and the eastern threat of Selim the Liberator is the looming shadow of Communism. However, I read this story as one about socially conditioned loneliness. Edgar Hopkins is hardly a

Persephone books are an auto-buy for me, but some don't please me as much as others. I loved R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September so I had high hopes for this story where the moon crashes to earth, in the solid English tradition of The War of the Worlds and The Day of the Triffids. However, the scifi part of the story is completely ludicrous, and Edgar Hopkins, the survivor writing the account, is so pompous, I cringed over and over again. All the same, there is something horribly

I just loved this book. It is the kinda of sci-fi that I like, more realistic then aliens taking over the earth kind. In this book the moon crashes into the earth and the British have to figure out how to survive. It is sooo British. It was written in 1939 so it was interesting in that it is just at the start of WWII.Another great Persephone Books volume.

Despite the foreword by The Imperial Research Press, The Hopkins Manuscript is the only account to read of the disaster which reshapes the world in this science fiction novel. I found the character of Edgar Hopkins, the narrator, took a little getting used to since he starts out as a pompous, egotistical elderly man obsessed with his chickens and social rank, but he mellows as the story progresses and turns out to be only too human after disaster strikes.

Another win for London's clever little bookshop/publishing dynamo, Persephone Books! I thought it might be old-school science fiction, spread into some good drama (sans melodrama), and it was. Actually, it's more like good drama in the vague shape of science fiction, but the introduction sells it as this, and the effect still works. I was most pleased by how Sherriff managed to get the reader back and forth between rooting for the title character, Hopkins, and also irked by him, too. He's not