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Nature 442, 986 (31 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442986a; Published online 30 August 2006

In Retrospect: Out of the darkness

Jay M. Pasachoff1

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Black Cloud

by Fred Hoyle

Heinemann/Harper and Brothers: 1957

From time to time, I remember an image of a dark interstellar cloud invading the Solar System and of scientists wondering what to do. The memory is not real, of course, but conjured up from reading Fred Hoyle's novel The Black Cloud long ago.

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