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The Black Hole Passes

John Varley · 1975novelette

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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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