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The Black Hole Passes
John Varley · 1975novelette
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- Placeouter planets & moons
When a distant star cluster is discovered to be beaming a stream of data to a location outside of the Solar System, a man and woman located in separate satellites in competition to capture and analyze the stream for useful information communicate with each other and fall in love; but they are endangered when a black hole follows a trajectory which passes near their stations.
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Placement
- Eight Worlds
- contained in Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe and Other Storiescollection
- contained in Quantum Special 2omnibus
- contained in The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SFanthology
- contained in The Persistence of Visioncollection