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2
Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Black Cloud
Verlag:
Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6D7R68N
EAN: 9780141196404
Auf Lager:
2
Zustellung: Di, 06.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. In the pacy, engaging style of John Wyndham and John Christopher, with plenty of hard science thrown in to add to the chillingly credible premise (he manages to foretell Artificial Intelligence, Optical Character Recognition and Text-to-Speech converters), Hoyle carries you breathlessly through to its thrilling end.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Fred Hoyle
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Taschenbuch
Anzahl Seiten
- 224