When Cornelius Pye inherits a rare book with supposedly magic properties, he finds it highly amusing. But soon after, the book is stolen, he is kidnapped and, to make matters worse, someone is threatening his girlfriend.
The book, the first English translation of Euclid’s Elements, was once owned by Elizabethan magician and mathematician Doctor John Dee. An enigmatic letter from Cornelius’s uncle explains that it has been passed down through his family for hundreds of years and holds a great lost secret.
Cornelius discovers that the book hosts a sarcastic, invisible alien, who calls himself Euclid—his real name being unpronounceable by humans. He is one half of a symbiotic pair, the other half being a humanoid alien called Tald. Being invisible, Euclid relies on Tald to provide contact with the real world.
Almost 450 years ago they were on their way to meet Dr Dee when they were ambushed by other aliens and crash landed on Earth. Tald was injured but managed to find his way to Dee’s house, where he somehow became Edward Kelley, a noted scholar of the time. Unfortunately, after the crash, Tald lost his connection to Euclid, who was forced to take refuge in the book. Tald went to the continent with Dee and never came back.
Euclid helps Cornelius to escape his kidnappers by enabling him to jump instantaneously to another location. Once free, Cornelius finds that his problems are multiplying. Whoever ordered Cornelius to be kidnapped in the first place believes that the book contains the key to immense wealth and will stop at nothing to possess its secrets.
On top of which, Euclid would quite like to find his other half and go home!
About the author
Mick Scott lives in a small village in North Yorkshire with his wife and cacti collection. In his 70s, The Other Euclid is his first book. His aim was to write a science fiction book for people who didn’t really like science fiction.
There are enough unanswered questions in this book for a sequel, which he hopes to complete more quickly!
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