The Black Cloud
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451114327 (0451114329)
ASIN: 0451114329
Publish date: 1982-03-02
Publisher: Roc
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Aliens,
Hard Science Fiction,
Fiction
Honestly, just skip the maths, forget it's got too much science and not enough sex. It's brilliant. It might be a boy's book, I know a couple now who keep it by their bed, but I found it unputdownable.The interaction with other intelligent life is very moving. The politics felt real.I wonder what wo...
Recommended by Richard Darwkins.
This is the best geek wish-fulfillment fantasy I know, and I've also heard that it's Richard Dawkins's favorite science fiction novel. Make of that what you will. It's The Future, as imagined in the late 50s, and by the time I read it the book was already feeling a bit dated. But, oddly enough, that...
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