The Black Cloud

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Overview:

Title: The Black Cloud
Author: Fred Hoyle
Year: 1971
ISBN-10: 0140014667
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: £0.25
Pages: 219
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Black Cloud
Notes: Reprinted 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1971
"Cover design by David Pelham" on rear cover but is in fact a graphically-altered version of the earlier John Griffith's cover art. The other 1971 edition has the correct David Pelham image as seen here.