The Hab Theory

The Hab Theory is based on the struggle of a real-life electrical engineer named Hugh Anchluss Brown, who died in the mid-60s. Fifty years before his death he formulated a revolutionary, terrifying theory that would explain, among many other things, the flash-frozen wooley mammoths, Egypt's ancient, inland freshwater sea & the discovery of a human sandal buried in a European coal seam.
After spending the following 40 years trying to disprove his own work--& only finding more supporting evidence--the hapless Brown tried to publish his findings as a warning to the world, without success.
When he died, Brown left over 200,000 pages of notes to his daughter, who invited Allan W. Eckert to work the research into a sci-fi plot. While managing to incorporate hundreds of Brown's findings into the book (it's this massive body of supporting evidence that makes the novel worth reading), Eckert did nobody a service by adding a shmaltzy, poorly told love story to the reality-based tale of an aged engineer desperate to be heard by a sceptical scientific establishment.
This book becomes especially significant in light of discoveries made since Brown's death--discoveries that remove the "irremovable" barriers which scientific dogma had put in his path while he lived.--Gershon1