Name: The Black Cloud
Author: Hoyle, Fred

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Written by an astrophysicist, this book is about an enormous cloud of gas that comes between Earth and the sun—to disastrous climatic effects. The cloud's behavior is unpredictable and is revealed to be a superorganism.

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