![]() A sceptical Dr Chris Kingsley is finally convinced and travels with the Astronomer Royal (addressed fondly as A.R.) to America where they compare notes with fellow-scientists. This engrossing and peculiarly British work by Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (“astronomer, writer, broadcaster and television personality”) draws heavily, one presumes, on his experiences working within the astronomical communities of both Britain and the US.Ī combination of observations by astronomers in the UK and the US lead to the discovery of an immense black cloud due to intersect with the Earth’s solar orbit in sixteen months time. The effect of this impending catastrophe on the scientists and politicians is convincingly described by Fred Hoyle, the leading Cambridge astronomer, so convincingly, in fact, that the reader feels that these events might actually happen.’īlurb from the 1980 Penguin Science Fiction edition. ‘A cloud of gas, of which there are a vast number in the Universe, approaches the Solar System on a course that is predicted to bring it between the Sun and the Earth, shutting off the Sun’s rays, causing incalculable changes on our planet. ![]()
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