Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: New England Science Fiction Association
ISBN: 9781886778061
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vol. 2: More than most authors, Clement labors in the traditional fields of hard science fiction, developing knotty, challenging puzzles for his characters to meet and overcome with scientific rationality and common sense. His protagonists are beings of many persuasions, often alien, using their knowledge and intelligence to solve problems, whether escaping from captivity, analyzing apparently incomprehensible situations, or simply doing business. At opening up new perspectives, Clement is masterful.
The Essential Hal Clement: Trio for slide rule and typewriter
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: New England Science Fiction Association
ISBN: 9781886778061
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vol. 2: More than most authors, Clement labors in the traditional fields of hard science fiction, developing knotty, challenging puzzles for his characters to meet and overcome with scientific rationality and common sense. His protagonists are beings of many persuasions, often alien, using their knowledge and intelligence to solve problems, whether escaping from captivity, analyzing apparently incomprehensible situations, or simply doing business. At opening up new perspectives, Clement is masterful.
Publisher: New England Science Fiction Association
ISBN: 9781886778061
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vol. 2: More than most authors, Clement labors in the traditional fields of hard science fiction, developing knotty, challenging puzzles for his characters to meet and overcome with scientific rationality and common sense. His protagonists are beings of many persuasions, often alien, using their knowledge and intelligence to solve problems, whether escaping from captivity, analyzing apparently incomprehensible situations, or simply doing business. At opening up new perspectives, Clement is masterful.
Mission Of Gravity
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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 harsh environment, can help. And so Barlennan, the resourceful and courageous captain of the Mesklinite ship Bree, sets out on an heroic and appalling journey into the terrible unknown. For him and his people, the prize to be gained is as great as that for mankind... Hal Clement's MISSION OF GRAVITY is universally regarded as one of the most important and best loved novels in the genre. The remarkable and sympathetic depiction of an alien species and the plausible and scientifically based realisation of the strange world they inhabit make it a major landmark in the history of hard SF.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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 harsh environment, can help. And so Barlennan, the resourceful and courageous captain of the Mesklinite ship Bree, sets out on an heroic and appalling journey into the terrible unknown. For him and his people, the prize to be gained is as great as that for mankind... Hal Clement's MISSION OF GRAVITY is universally regarded as one of the most important and best loved novels in the genre. The remarkable and sympathetic depiction of an alien species and the plausible and scientifically based realisation of the strange world they inhabit make it a major landmark in the history of hard SF.
Iceworld
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575110171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As the planet gleamed in his viewport, Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could have produced intelligent life. Yet when the expedition had sent in unmanned landers, that was what it had found. Some sort of native alien, surviving on the barren planet. But Sallman and his team were not the first to make contact. Smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives for a new and virulent narcotic - the most dangerous drug in the universe. Now Sallman would have to find out how he could survive on a planet so cold that sulphur was solid and water was liquid - and how to stop the source of the deadly drug!
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575110171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As the planet gleamed in his viewport, Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could have produced intelligent life. Yet when the expedition had sent in unmanned landers, that was what it had found. Some sort of native alien, surviving on the barren planet. But Sallman and his team were not the first to make contact. Smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives for a new and virulent narcotic - the most dangerous drug in the universe. Now Sallman would have to find out how he could survive on a planet so cold that sulphur was solid and water was liquid - and how to stop the source of the deadly drug!
The Best of Hal Clement
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
THE HARD-CORE SCIENCE OF HAL CLEMENT The supreme practitioner of "hard" science fiction, Hal Clement combines ingenious problem-solving with suspenseful drama and action. These ten stories show the mastery of science and fiction that Clement has displayed in such favourites as Mission of Gravity, Iceworld, and Needle. UNCOMMON SENSEIf your back's to the wall, even a deadly predator can be useful. ANSWER"Know thyself" is great advice...if you don't follow it all the way. QUESTION OF GUILTWas he a medical pioneer...or the first vampire? IMPEDIMENTMind-reading makes for perfect trust - as long as it works both ways! -AND LOTS MORE!
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
THE HARD-CORE SCIENCE OF HAL CLEMENT The supreme practitioner of "hard" science fiction, Hal Clement combines ingenious problem-solving with suspenseful drama and action. These ten stories show the mastery of science and fiction that Clement has displayed in such favourites as Mission of Gravity, Iceworld, and Needle. UNCOMMON SENSEIf your back's to the wall, even a deadly predator can be useful. ANSWER"Know thyself" is great advice...if you don't follow it all the way. QUESTION OF GUILTWas he a medical pioneer...or the first vampire? IMPEDIMENTMind-reading makes for perfect trust - as long as it works both ways! -AND LOTS MORE!
Cycle of Fire
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575110201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Stranded on an alien planet, light years from home, wandering from blistering heat to searing cold, Nils Kruger was not a happy man. So when he met another being - even though it wasn't human - things seemed to be looking up. The alien might be helpless, or it might be dangerous, but one thing was for sure - they stood a better chance for survival if they worked together. But as the two creatures overcame their mutual suspicion, as they worked together, as the language barrier was broken down, Nils came to a terrifying conclusion - this alien was more intelligent than a human. And to it, Nils was the alien
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575110201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Stranded on an alien planet, light years from home, wandering from blistering heat to searing cold, Nils Kruger was not a happy man. So when he met another being - even though it wasn't human - things seemed to be looking up. The alien might be helpless, or it might be dangerous, but one thing was for sure - they stood a better chance for survival if they worked together. But as the two creatures overcame their mutual suspicion, as they worked together, as the language barrier was broken down, Nils came to a terrifying conclusion - this alien was more intelligent than a human. And to it, Nils was the alien
Through the Eye of a Needle
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575110252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Time was running out for Bob Kinnaird. Without much warning, the Hunter - the green protoplasmic alien that lived inside him and cured all his ills - had suddenly become his destroyer. Day by day Bob grew weaker and weaker, but only specialists from the Hunter's distant world would know what was wrong with him and, more importantly, how to save him. But the only way searchers from his planet could find him was to locate his missing spaceship . . . a spaceship that had crashed beneath the ocean years before, its location still very much a mystery. Once again leading an investigation against time - as he had done so many years before - the Hunter knew he had to find comrades and find them fast . . . before someone murdered his best friend.
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575110252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Time was running out for Bob Kinnaird. Without much warning, the Hunter - the green protoplasmic alien that lived inside him and cured all his ills - had suddenly become his destroyer. Day by day Bob grew weaker and weaker, but only specialists from the Hunter's distant world would know what was wrong with him and, more importantly, how to save him. But the only way searchers from his planet could find him was to locate his missing spaceship . . . a spaceship that had crashed beneath the ocean years before, its location still very much a mystery. Once again leading an investigation against time - as he had done so many years before - the Hunter knew he had to find comrades and find them fast . . . before someone murdered his best friend.
The Green World
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479459666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The planet was an enigma—and its solution was death!
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479459666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The planet was an enigma—and its solution was death!
Close to Critical
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere, Tenebra was a hostile planet: a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops. Uncompromising - yet there was life, intelligent life on Tenebra. For more than twenty years, Earth scientists had studied the natives from an orbiting laboratory... and had even found a way to train and educate a few of them.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere, Tenebra was a hostile planet: a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops. Uncompromising - yet there was life, intelligent life on Tenebra. For more than twenty years, Earth scientists had studied the natives from an orbiting laboratory... and had even found a way to train and educate a few of them.
Natives of Space
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extraterrestrial beings
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extraterrestrial beings
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Nitrogen Fix
Author: Hal Clement
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In the very far future, when the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere has combined with the nitrogen . . . When the formerly life-giving seas are now formed of nitric acid . . . When the very atmosphere itself is corrosive and lethal . . . Humanity must adapt . . . or perish!
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575110260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In the very far future, when the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere has combined with the nitrogen . . . When the formerly life-giving seas are now formed of nitric acid . . . When the very atmosphere itself is corrosive and lethal . . . Humanity must adapt . . . or perish!