At first the Cloud appears to be just another celestial object passing through. The astronomer reports his findings to his senior colleagues who conclude that the phenomenon is a dense nebular, or “the black cloud” as they call it, moving towards the Solar System. The novel begins with a young astronomer discovering “a large, almost exactly circular, dark patch” on a photograph of the sky where just one month ago the stars used to be. This post is about Fred Hoyle and his first 1957 science fiction novel “The Black Cloud” ( pdf). Hoyle wrote 19 science fiction books, some of them in collaboration with his son Geoffrey Hoyle. The famous British astrophysicist and cosmologist, who explained to us how the elements form inside the stars, was also a great science fiction author. They like to imagine what the other Worlds are like. They can’t take their eyes off the starry sky.
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