The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton: The Mesklin stories - Hardcover

Hal Clement

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9781886778085: The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton: The Mesklin stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1886778086 ISBN 13: 9781886778085
Publisher: Nesfa Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Volume 3 contains the complete Mesklin writings of Hal Clement, including his superb novel Mission of Gravity.

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About the Author

Hal Clement was the pseudonym of the exemplar of hard science fiction, Harry C. Stubbs. He created the pseudonym while working for his Master's degree in Astronomy at Harvard, fearing his professor would not want him to be "wasting" his time. He did not know that this same professor submitted science fiction to Hugo Gernsback's magazines. Hal's first published story was "Proof" which appeared in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Then, as with many other SF writers, the War intervened. Following bomber combat duty in Europe with the Army Air Corps in World War II, Harry returned home, learned to drive a car, became a high-school chemistry teacher, and wrote Hugo-winning science fiction. Hal was a fixture at many SF conventions, where he always had time to talk to his fellow fans.

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The third volume of the New England Science Fiction Association's Hal Clement reprint series is the most important yet because it includes two of Clement's Mesklin novels, Mission of Gravity (1954) and Star Light (1971), both long out of print. Dealing with relations between Barlinan, a ship captain from a world that has 800 gravities at the pole (i.e., things are very, very heavy there) and rotates in 18 minutes, and human explorers, the books are foundation stones of hard-science sf. Besides the novels, the collection includes Clement's article on the scientific basis of Mesklin, three short stories, and three original critical essays, on whose merits readers can make up their own minds. But have no doubt that Clement's own writing in the volume constitutes an essential acquisition for good sf collections. Roland Green
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Publisher
Nesfa Pr
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1886778086
ISBN 13 
9781886778085
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
522
Editor
Mark L. Olson, Anthony R. Lewis
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