He also held a position as a visiting professor of astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology. He became the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge in 1967 and was knighted in 1972.
John’s College, Cambridge, he was a lecturer in mathematics from 1945 to 1958, when he was appointed to the prestigious post of Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. for the first time in over 40 years in this edition, published to coincide with the centennial of the author’s birth and featuring a new foreword by Geoffrey Hoyle.įred Hoyle was born at Bingley, Yorkshire in 1915 and educated at Bingley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Ī landmark of British science fiction, The Black Cloud (1957) was the first novel by world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), who used his own scientific background to create a frighteningly real apocalyptic thriller in which, Hoyle said, “there is very little that could not conceivably happen.” Long recognized as a classic in Great Britain, Hoyle’s novel returns to print in the U.S. But when they uncover the truth behind its origins, they will be forced to reconsider everything they think they know about the nature of life in the universe. With the fate of every living thing on Earth in the balance, world leaders assemble a team of brilliant scientists to figure out a way to stop the cloud. If their calculations are correct, the cloud’s path will bring it between the Earth and the Sun, blocking out the Sun’s rays and threatening unimaginable consequences for our planet.
Astronomers in England and America have made a terrifying discovery: an ominous black cloud the size of Jupiter is travelling straight towards our solar system.
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