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  <title><![CDATA[The Black Cloud]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Fred Hoyle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1970</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best geek wish-fulfillment fantasy I know, and I've also heard that it's Richard Dawkins's favorite science fiction novel. Make of that what you will. <br/><br/>It's The Future, as imagined in the late 50s, and by the time I read it the book was already feeling a bit dated. But, oddly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42545738">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first heard of this book when Richard Dawkins listed it in his top 5 novels of all time, so despite what I think of Hoyle, couldn't resist picking this up. The book is effectively an essay on a possible ETI contact scenario, played out as a story. Hoyle is certainly no literary master but what mak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48944429">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 08 21:23:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty interesting old-ish sci-fi read.  Totally devoid of any attempt to add suspense, but still made me want to keep reading it for some reason.  Maybe it was all the dry British wit in there.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I initially read this book when I was a kid. I appreciate it more as an adult, cause its a real talky book full of ideas. It's interesting that it's considered a class now.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fair, but dated, hard-science SF novel by the noted astrophysicist responsible for steady-state cosmological theory.]]></body>
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    <review id="57946446">
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic of 'hard science fiction']]></body>
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    <review id="64483737">
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended by Richard Darwkins. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazon 2009-05-18.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fascinating, written by Astronomer Fred Hoyle to expand your ideas about extra terrestrial life in the universe.  His ideas were so &quot;out there&quot; yet explained so easily and made to seem ultra probable!  A definite must read for anyone that i am friends with!!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good sci-fi. I don't want to give too much away, but there is a really interesting alternative form of life and Hoyle's explanation of it's existence and plausibility is quite good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 stars. ]]></body>
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