Title: The Black Cloud

Title: The Black Cloud Title Record # 2355
Author: Fred Hoyle
Date: 1957-00-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Year	Language	Title
1958^ⓘTranslated by 鈴木敬信 (Keishin Suzuki)	Japanese	暗黒星雲^?Ankoku seiun [as by フレッド・ホイル^?Fureddo Hoiru ]
1958^ⓘTranslated by Mons Mossner	Swedish	Det svarta molnet
1958^ⓘTranslated by Helmut Degner	German	Die Schwarze Wolke
1959^ⓘTranslated by Age Bergman	Dutch	De donkere wolk
1961^ⓘTranslated by María Testa	Spanish	La nube negra
1962^ⓘTranslated by Maria da Glória de Souza Reis	Portuguese	A nuvem negra
1962^ⓘTranslated by Jean Queval	French	La nuée de l'apocalypse
1962^ⓘTranslated by Jean Queval	French	Le nuage noir
1964^ⓘTranslated by Artur Portela Filho	Portuguese	A nuvem negra
1974^ⓘTranslated by Age Bergman	Dutch	De zwarte wolk
1988^ⓘTranslated by Gemma Carvajal	Spanish	La nube negra

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Black Cloud	1957-00-00	Fred Hoyle	William Heinemann		15/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	x+ 251	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Desmond Skirrow
The Black Cloud	1957-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Harper & Brothers		$2.95^?$: US dollar	251	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	1958-07-00	Fred Hoyle	Harper & Brothers / SFBC		$1.20^?$: US dollar	201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	1959-06-00	Fred Hoyle	Signet / New American Library	S1673	$0.35^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Richard Powers
The Black Cloud	1960-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	1466	2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Griffiths
The Black Cloud	1960-00-00	Fred Hoyle	William Heinemann		5/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	251	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	1960-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	1466	2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	218+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Griffiths
The Black Cloud	1962-10-00	Fred Hoyle	Signet	D2202	$0.50^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Richard Powers
The Black Cloud	1963-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	1466	2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Griffiths
The Black Cloud	1964-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	1466	2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Griffiths
The Black Cloud	1965-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Perennial Library / Harper & Row	P37	$0.50^?$: US dollar	x+ 214	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Charles & Cuffari
The Black Cloud	1965-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	1466	3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Griffiths
The Black Cloud	1967-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	1466	3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Griffiths
The Black Cloud	1967-00-00	Fred Hoyle	William Heinemann		25/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	251	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Desmond Skirrow
The Black Cloud	1968-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Signet / New American Library	P3384	$0.60^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Black Cloud	1968-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	1466	4/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Black Cloud	1971-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£0.35^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David Pelham
The Black Cloud	1971-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£0.35^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David Pelham
The Black Cloud	1971-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£0.25^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Black Cloud	1972-00-00	Fred Hoyle	William Heinemann	0-435-12047-6		249	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	1972-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£0.35^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David Pelham
The Black Cloud	1974-00-00	Fred Hoyle	William Heinemann	0-434-34919-4		261	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	1975-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£0.60^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David Pelham
The Black Cloud	1978-00-00	Fred Hoyle	William Heinemann	0-435-12047-6		x+ 250	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	1978-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£0.65^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David Pelham
The Black Cloud	1980-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£0.95^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Adrian Chesterman
The Black Cloud	1982-03-00	Fred Hoyle	Signet / New American Library	0-451-11432-9	$2.25^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Paul Alexander
The Black Cloud	1983-00-00	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books	0-14-001466-7	£1.75^?£: UK pound	219	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Harris
The Black Cloud	1988-00-00	Fred Hoyle	The Easton Press (The Masterpieces of Science Fiction)			201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	1998-04-00	Fred Hoyle	Buccaneer Books	0-89968-344-4		200	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Black Cloud	2010-09-02	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-119640-4	£9.99^?£: UK pound	viii+ 215	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Black Cloud	2010-09-02	Fred Hoyle	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-196749-3	£6.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Black Cloud	2015-01-13	Fred Hoyle	Valancourt Books (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)	978-1-941147-42-9	$16.99^?$: US dollar	vi+ 226	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Lorenzo Princi
The Black Cloud	date unknown	Fred Hoyle	Signet / New American Library	T5486	$0.75^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Black Cloud	date unknown	Fred Hoyle	Signet	T5486	$0.75^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Black Cloud	date unknown	Fred Hoyle	Signet / New American Library	0-451-07833-0	$1.50^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Black Cloud	date unknown	Fred Hoyle	Signet / New American Library	P3384	$0.60^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Black Cloud	date unknown	Fred Hoyle	William Heinemann		15/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	251	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Desmond Skirrow

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Review by Ken Slater [as by Kenneth F. Slater] (1958) in Nebula Science Fiction, Number 26
Review by Leslie Flood (1958) in New Worlds Science Fiction, #68 February 1958
Review by Anthony Boucher (1958) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1958
Review by R. S. Richardson [as by Robert S. Richardson] (1958) in Astounding Science Fiction, July 1958 , reprinted in:
[as by Robert S. Richardson] Astounding Science Fiction, October 1958 (UK) (1958)
Review by Hans Stefan Santesson (1958) in Fantastic Universe, August 1958
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1958) in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1958
Review by Damon Knight (1958) in If, December 1958
Review by Floyd C. Gale (1958) in Galaxy Magazine, December 1958
Review [German] by uncredited (1959) in Utopia-Science-Fiction-Magazin, #24
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1959) in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1959
Review by Frederik Pohl (1959) in If, November 1959
Review [German] by
Arnulf D. Krauß^?Arnulf D. Krauss
(1965) in Pioneer, #21
Review [Swedish] by Roland Adlerberth (1966) in Häpna!, Nr 1, (1966)
Review by Richard Delap (1968) in Science Fiction Review, November 1968
Review [French] by
Francis Valéry^?Francis Valery
(1980) in Fiction, #308
Review by David Langford (1980) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 4, Number 1
Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
Review by Joseph Nicholas (1984) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 4
Review by Darrell Bain (2005) in My 100 Most Readable (and Re-Readable) Science Fiction Novels

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