The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations On A Theme By Sir Isaac Newton: The Mesklin Stories (signed by the author)

Clement, Hal

ISBN 10: 1886778086 / ISBN 13: 9781886778085

Published by NESFA Press: MA, 2000

About this Item

Third volume of three. 465 pages: edited by Mark L. Olson and Anthony R. Lewis. Collects the Mesklin novels MISSION OF GRAVITY and STAR LIGHT (first hardcover edition of the latter), and the Mesklin stories ''Lecture Demonstration'' and ''Under'', plus the essay ''Whirligig World''. Four page introduction by Dave Langford, plus two afterwords by each of the editors. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations On A Theme By Sir Isaac Newton: The Mesklin Stories (signed by the author)
• Publisher: NESFA Press: MA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886778086
• ISBN 13: 9781886778085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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

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.