For some reason, the Daily Polluter received a batch of almost 30 books from a certain RKL. They are all the same text, "The Black Cloud", but in different editions. The author is the British Astronomer Fred Hoyle. What to do with that stash? Well, The Daily Polluter read one of them. The novel reads well and is quite intriguing intellectually, but socially a bit dated. The whole novel has only two women in it, and each time, they bring tea and fall in love with dominant males. The Black Cloud itself, on the other hand, is not dated at all, a sentient mass of gas engulfing the earth, causing floods, climate changes, and even global warming. Sounds just like some of our cloud sightings. And it also...well, you should see for yourself. Now what with all the books? It would be great to find a high school teacher who would want a reading set of this book.
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