The Gap in the Curtain

The Gap in the Curtain
1st edition dust jacket
AuthorJohn Buchan
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction novel
Set inUnited Kingdom
PublisherHodder & Stoughton[1]
Publication date
1932[1]
Media typePrint
Pages315 pp[1]

The Gap in the Curtain is a 1932 borderline science fiction novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. Part of the action is autobiographical, featuring the agonies of a contemporary up-and-coming politician.[2] It explores the theory of serial time put forward by J W Dunne: Buchan had been reading An Experiment with Time.[3]

  1. ^ a b c "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Review of The Gap in the Curtain, Nextory". Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  3. ^ Peake, Anthony. Time and the Rose Garden: Exploring the Magical in the Life and Works of J B Priestley (2018)