[PDF] The Black Cloud eBook

Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141967498

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A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. In the pacy, engaging style of John Wyndham and John Christopher, with plenty of hard science thrown in to add to the chillingly credible premise (he manages to foretell Artificial Intelligence, Optical Character Recognition and Text-to-Speech converters), Hoyle carries you breathlessly through to its thrilling end.

Author : David Wright Falade
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802159206

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Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild—a one-armed, impassioned Abolitionist—set out from Portsmouth to hunt down the rebel guerillas and extinguish the threat. From this little-known historical episode comes Black Cloud Rising, a dramatic, moving account of these soldiers—men who only weeks earlier had been enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners. At the heart of the narrative is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, raised with some privileges but constantly reminded of his place. Deeply conflicted about his past, Richard is eager to show himself to be a credit to his race. As the African Brigade conducts raids through the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers, he and his comrades recognize that they are fighting for more than territory. Wild’s mission is to prove that his troops can be trusted as soldiers in combat. And because many of the men have fled from the very plantations in their path, each raid is also an opportunity to free loved ones left behind. For Richard, this means the possibility of reuniting with Fanny, the woman he hopes to marry one day. With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom.

Author : Warren E. Jackson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1682891070

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It is very hard to live in this big world alone. At one point or another, everyone needs a friend and a shoulder to lean on. Life is just better with friends! Little Black Cloud will inspire friendship, kindness, and equality no matter the color of our skin or what we look like. So, no matter red, black or white, do your part to shine some light!

Author : Eliot Kleinberg
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786711468

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A Florida native delves into the state's history to reconstruct a 1928 hurricane that devastated the region right before the Great Depression, finding evidence of communities hard hit by the killer storm.

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307373576

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England, to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Author : Ian D. S. Thomson
Publisher : Old City Pub Incorporated
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780948153204

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The Black Cloud provides an account of some of the Scottish mountain misadventures in the years 1928 - 1966. The book begins in the late 1920s when searches were made by shepherds, stalkers and as many able-bodied volunteers as could be mustered; it ends in the days when helicopters and trained mountain rescue teams had become available.

Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593818199

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“As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.

Author : Patricia Hermes
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375899642

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Born in Northern Nevada in 1950, Black Cloud is a black-and-white mustang colt. He loves roaming free with the rest of his herd, playing with the other foals, and learning the ways of wild horses. But when humans intrude on this wandering life, Black Cloud's world is changed forever. Like Black Beauty, this moving novel is told in first person from the horse's own point of view and includes an appendix full of photos and facts about mustangs and the history of the laws protecting them.

Author : Nicole Black
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Cloud computing
ISBN : 9781616328849

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As more businesses move their IT systems into the cloud, lawyers need to ask if cloud computing is right for their firm. Cloud Computing for Lawyers features a discussion of cloud computing fundamentals, an overview of legal cloud computing products, and step-by-step instructions for implementing cloud computing in your practice--including practical tips for securing your data.

Author : Juliet Escoria
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937865245

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"Juliet Escoria has a poet's knack for knowing when to tie off a paragraph for thunderous effect and displays enormous empathy for the damaged souls that populate her stories." --San Diego CityBeat