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  • The Black Cloud

    par Fred Hoyle ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor ... En savoir plus

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  • La nuvola nera

    par Fred Hoyle ...
    Traduit par Luciano Bianciardi ...
    “Una storia che ti afferra subito e non ti lascia andare fino alle prime ore dell’alba” Richard Dawkins 1964, osservatorio astronomico di Monte Palomar. Si scopre che un’immensa, e mai vista prima, nuvola di gas interstellari si sta pericolosamente avvicinando al sistema solare. Si tratta di un organismo vivente, antichissimo, grande come l’orbita di Venere, con una massa analoga a Giove, che sta ... En savoir plus

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  • October the First Is Too Late

    par Fred Hoyle ...
    Renowned scientist John Sinclair and his old school friend Richard, a celebrated composer, are enjoying a climbing expedition in the Scottish Highlands when Sinclair disappears without a trace for thirteen hours. When he resurfaces with no explanation for his disappearance, he has undergone an uncanny alteration: a birthmark on his back has vanished. But stranger events are yet to come: things are ... En savoir plus

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  • Fifth Planet

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    A planetary system, consisting of a star and five planets, is travelling through our galaxy and will pass close to Earth. The four largest planets are gaseous, but the fifth, named Achilles, appears capable of supporting life. Two rival expeditions - one Anglo-American and one Russian - set out to land on Achilles and explore its mysteries. But almost from the moment of their arrival things begin ... En savoir plus

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  • The Incandescent Ones

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    Young Peter, a student of Byzantine art forms at Moscow University, through a cryptic sentence in a lecture receives a message to buy two books of his choice at exactly 1.30 pm in the university bookstore. When he opens the package, a third book, 'The Life of Pushkin', a very special copy indeed, has been included. It is this third book that leads Peter to Armenia on a series of adventures of the ... En savoir plus

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  • Seven Steps to the Sun

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    Mike Jerome, a likeable young TV writer, visits Professor Smitt, a physicist, who gives him an idea for a TV script: using some source of light, perhaps a laser beam, one could reduce the human structure to a form that could be transmitted into the future as electrical pulses - and thus create time travel.On the way home Mike is hit by a taxi, and when he recovers he finds the date is 1979 - ten ... En savoir plus

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  • The Molecule Men and the Monster of Loch Ness

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    Dr John West, Cambridge don and private investigator, was present at the trial of an odd duck, R. A. Adcock, who was being most uncooperative in answering questions about a bank robbery. At length, Adcock had made a dash for it from the courtroom - through a glass window, and what should have been a three storey drop to the street. But suddenly, Adcock wasn't there, and at once a swarm of bees ... En savoir plus

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  • Into Deepest Space

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    Sequel to Rockets in Ursa MajorFrom a great distance the Yela's recorded message crackled through on the micro-earpiece: 'For the time being you have won. But I am not defeated so easily.'That had been three years ago, after Dick Warboys had repulsed the invading Yela by firing a lithium bomb into the Sun. But now that threat seems near fulfilment as appalled scientists detect the rapid approach ... En savoir plus

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  • Comet Halley

    par Fred Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    Returning to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge after a spell at the nuclear research labs of CERN in Geneva, Professor Isaac Newton is plunged into the centre of a baffling mystery. One of his research students, Mike Howarth, has picked up strange signals on his satellite telemetry equipment, signals that appear to emanate from a passing comet. Not long after he has passed the vital data into ... En savoir plus

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  • The Inferno

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    Cameron, a tall, testy, whisky-drinking, nationalist-minded, Scottish physicist, may not have been an astronomer, but he knew the off things in the sky when he saw them. From an Australian mountaintop where he was advising on the location of a radiotelescope he saw what looked like Mars, in the wrong spot in the sky. But it wasn't Mars at all, it was a supernova ... no, not a supernova but a ... En savoir plus

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  • Rockets in Ursa Major

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    Originally written as a play and performed at the Mermaid Theatre, Easter 1962.It is the early 20th century. Man is seeking signs of life elsewhere in the universe, but all exploratory ships have been lost without a trace - except for DSP15. Thirty years after leaving earth, and given up for lost, DSP15 suddenly appears on radar screens at the space station at Mildenhall, England. Her crew had ... En savoir plus

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  • The Westminster Disaster

    par Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle ...
    Collections series Fred Hoyle's World of Science Fiction
    The Westminster Disaster is based on the present world shortage of high-grade uranium and the action turns on a Soviet threat to use nuclear blackmail against London.When the British Ambassador to the U.N. seeks to veto a Soviet demand for sanctions against South Africa, the threat becomes a hideous reality.Writing from a position of intimate knowledge of advanced trends in research and science ... En savoir plus

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