(Ironically, Hoyle created the term “big bang” as a derisive term for an idea he didn’t like.) Hoyle is remembered as an advocate, in the 1950s, of the “steady-state” theory of the universe, in contrast to the “big bang” theory that would eventually prevail. Hoyle’s novels are significant because they are science fiction novels written by a real scientist, perhaps the most famed scientist to have ever written science fiction. It’s still his most famous, and likely best, novel, out of some nearly 20 novels he would subsequently write, some in collaboration. William Heinemann (251 pages, £1.50 in hardcover, 1957)įred Hoyle’s 1957 novel The Black Cloud was the first novel by the renowned, perhaps now forgotten (because his big ideas turned out to be wrong), astronomer of the mid-20 th century. The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle First Edition: William Heinemann, 1957.Ĭover by Desmond Skirrow (click to enlarge)
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