The Black Cloud

Name: The Black Cloud
ISBN: 9780899683447

Fred Hoyle

223 pages · about 4 hours
First published 1957
36 editions

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1 About this book

The Black Cloud is a 1957 science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. It details the arrival of an enormous cloud of gas that enters the Solar System and appears about to destroy most of the life on Earth by blocking the Sun's radiation.

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Good for readers who want: science fiction and the end of the world.

Science fiction
End of the world
Interstellar matter

2 About Fred Hoyle

1915–2001

Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the influential B2FH paper.

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