A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer & cosmologist Fred Hoyle Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth & sits in front of the sun causing widespread panic & death A select group of scientists & astronomers
- including the dignified Astronomer Royal the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe & the maverick eccentric Professor Kingsly
- engage in a mad race to understand & communicate with the cloud battling against trigger happy politicians In the pacy engaging style of John Wyndham & 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 & Text-to-Speech converters) Hoyle carries you breathlessly through to its thrilling end