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Book Description: Victor Gollancz, London England, 2000. Softcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Collectors Edition. 64mo - up to 3" tall. 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 regaded 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 realization of the strange world they inhabit make it a major landmark in the history of hard SF. Softcover. Bookseller Inventory # 008595

Book Description: Victor Gollancz, London, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Octavo. 203 pp. Very light edgewear to wraps. Spine uncreased. Yellowing to upper and fore edges of text block. Gatefold flaps. Internally clean and solidly bound. Collectors' Edition. "The best account of alien life on another planet." -- Thomas M. Disch. Bookseller Inventory # 002502