(Found) Phenomenon causes planet's crop to bloom, then sun destroys, 60s 70s

[vancecam]

Trying to find this sci-fi novel I read in 60's or early 70s. Protaganist discovers that planets enjoying bumper crops are due to space phenonmenon that soon destroys the planet.

 

[NannyOgg]

Was this definitely more than one planet? Were these food crops? Does the planet get destroyed in the book? I'm asking because there's a remote chance this could be a book I'm thinking of in which the development of one particular plant on one particular planet is found to be affected by a disaster that's coming, but that's actually the Big Reveal of the book and I don't want to name and thus spoiler the book unless it's likely to be the right one (which, from what you've said, it probably isn't).

 

[vancecam]

Hi NannyOgg,
You know, it may have been one planet. As I recall, the protaganist discovers that the reason the crop is doing so well is because of some energy or phenomenon in space that unfortunately is a precursor of destruction of the planet. And that discovery was in fact the Big Reveal. I thought that he had discovered it because of it happening on other planets, but that may not be the case. I read it when I was about 10 and loved it and I want to find it and read it again and see if it still holds up.

 

[NannyOgg]

In that case, it actually would fit the one I remember, which is Asimov's 'The Currents Of Space'. Hope that's the one!

 

[vancecam]

Awesome, I will check it out! Thanks!

 

[vancecam]

Awesome, I will check it out! Thanks!

Yes! That was it! Thanks so much.

 

[NannyOgg]

Brilliant! Glad to have helped!