Mission Of Gravity
Mesklinite Book 1
$33.54
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2015
Summary
Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world spinning dizzyingly, a world where gravity can be a crushing 700 times greater than Earth’s, a world too hostile for human explorers.
But the planet holds secrets of inestimable value, and an unmanned probe that has crashed close to one of its poles must be recovered. Only the Mesklinites, the small creatures so bizarrely adapted to their hars…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473206380 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473206383 |
| Author: | Hal Clement |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 16mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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The best account of alien life on another planet
A popular and long-lived work … an impressive feat of world-building … a touching adventure story … written with hearty conviction - SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELSOne of the best-loved novels in SF … intriguingly plausible - THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTIONRemains a great favouriteAbout The Author
Hal Clement
Hal Clement is the nom de plume under which Harry Clement Stubbs wrote science fiction. Born in Massachusetts in 1922, he graduated from Harvard with a BSc. in astronomy, and later added degrees in chemistry and education. A former B-24 pilot who saw active service during the Second World War, he worked for most of his life as a high-school science teacher. He made his reputation as an SF writer with the work that appeared in ASTOUNDING, where his best-known novel, MISSION OF GRAVITY, first appeared in serialised form in 1953.
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