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Hot Planet

Product Description: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

By Hal Clement

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9781523888481 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 5, 2016, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Hal Clement Sf Gateway Omnibus: Iceworld, Cycle of Fire, Close to Critical

By Hal Clement

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9780575110151 | Orion Pub Co, August 14, 2014, cover price $30.60

Mission of Gravity

Product 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...read more

By Hal Clement

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Hardcover:

9780899683362 | Lightyear Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia.

Paperback:

9780575077089 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, October 13, 2005), cover price $12.90 | About this edition: Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia.

9780345316226 | Ballantine Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $3.95 | also contains From the Beatles to Botham: And All the Bs... in Between

Noise

Mike Hoani journeys to Kainui, a planet originally settled by Polynesians, to study the language, culture, and evolution of the colony since its original settlement, and finds an ocean world without a breathable atmosphere, with harsh and constant stormy weather, and without solid ground, whose population is scattered on cities built on artificial floating islands. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Hal Clement

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Hardcover:

9780765308573 | Tor Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Mike Hoani journeys to the planet Kainui to study the language, culture, and evolution of the settlement, and finds an ocean world without a breathable atmosphere, and whose cities are built on artificial floating islands.

Paperback:

9780765310323 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, August 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Mike Hoani journeys to Kainui, a planet originally settled by Polynesians, to study the language, culture, and evolution of the colony since its original settlement, and finds an ocean world without a breathable atmosphere, with harsh and constant stormy weather, and without solid ground, whose population is scattered on cities built on artificial floating islands.

Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories

Accompanied by 'Whirligig World,' an essay first published in Astounding SF in 1953, in which the author describe his creation of Mesklin, an oddly shaped planet whose gravity varies widely from place to place, this omnibus collection features two classic hard science fiction novels--Mission of Gravity and Starlight--set on Mesklin. Original. 12,500 first printing.

By Hal Clement

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9780765303684 | Orb Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Features two science fiction novels--'Mission of Gravity' and 'Star light'--along with 'Whirligig World' which describes the author's creation of Mesklin, an oddly shaped planet whose gravity varies widely from place to place.

The Essential Hal Clement: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton

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By Hal Clement

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9781886778085 | Nesfa Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.00

Half Life

Seventy years in the future, diseases ravage the human race threatening total destruction, and the crew of a ship sent to investigate the biochemistry of Saturn's moons may hold the key to humankind's ultimate survival.

By Hal Clement

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Hardcover:

9780312869205 | Tor Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Seventy years in the future, diseases ravage the human race threatening total destruction, and the crew of a ship sent to investigate the biochemistry of Saturn's moons may hold the key to humankind's ultimate survival.

Paperback:

9780812566604 | Tor Science Fiction, June 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Seventy years in the future, diseases ravage the human race threatening total destruction, and the crew of a ship sent to investigate the biochemistry of Saturn's moons may hold the key to humankind's ultimate survival.

Prebinding:

9780613278645 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.40 | About this edition: Seventy years in the future, diseases ravage the human race threatening total destruction, and the crew of a ship sent to investigate the biochemistry of Saturn's moons may hold the key to humankind's ultimate survival.

The Essential Hal Clement: Music of Many Spheres

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By Hal Clement, Anthony R. Lewis (editor) and Mark L. Olson (editor)

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9781886778078 | Nesfa Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $25.00

The Metal Man & Others: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson

Product Description: This inaugural volume begins a publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Astounding Stories, this volume features nine tales including two novel-length adventures, The Green Girl and The Birth of a New Republic...read more

By Hal Clement (foreword by) and Jack Williamson

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9781893887022 | Haffner Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: This inaugural volume begins a publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson.

The Essential Hal Clement: Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter

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By Hal Clement

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9781886778061 | Nesfa Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $25.00

Fossil: Isaac's Universe

In a universe created by Isaac Asimov, six starfaring races coexist under a shaky truce, and when they discover traces of a completely unknown race, their precarious world is thrown into disarray. Original.

By Hal Clement

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9780886775735 | Daw Books, November 1, 1993, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: In a universe created by Isaac Asimov, six starfaring races coexist under a shaky truce, and when they discover traces of a completely unknown race, their precarious world is thrown into disarray.

Iceworld

Sallman Ken is assigned to find the source of a dangerous drug that is being smuggled from the planet Earth

By Hal Clement

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9780345300829 | Ballantine Books, October 1, 1989, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Sallman Ken is assigned to find the source of a dangerous drug that is being smuggled from the planet Earth

Still River

Five students find their lives in danger when they are sent to the planet Enigma to study its puzzling atmosphere

By Hal Clement

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9780345329172 | Reprint edition (Del Rey, January 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Five students find their lives in danger when they are sent to the planet Enigma to study its puzzling atmosphere

Intuit

By Hal Clement

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Hardcover:

9780915368358 | Nesfa Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.00

Nitrogen Fix

Product Description: Aliens and bad air. A novel of the future.

By Hal Clement

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9780441581184 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, June 1, 1982), cover price $2.95 | also contains See Inside the Human Body | About this edition: Aliens and bad air.

9780441581160, titled "The Nitrogen Fix" | Ace Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Nomadic humans maintain a tenuous existence on an Earth divested of free oxygen, with the help of dolphin-like alien creatures

Cycle of Fire

Wandering aimlessly on the planet of Abyorman after the crash of his spaceship, Earthman Nils Kruger encounters Dar Lang Ahn, a marooned alien whose intelligence is far superior to his own

By Hal Clement

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9780345291721 | Ballantine Books, April 1, 1981, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Wandering aimlessly on the planet of Abyorman after the crash of his spaceship, Earthman Nils Kruger encounters Dar Lang Ahn, a marooned alien whose intelligence is far superior to his own

Close to Critical

Product Description: Tenebra has a gravity three times that of Earth, a day temperature at the equator of 380 degrees centigrade, an atmosphere of water mixed with other chemicals, and a constantly shifting crust. There is life, with intelligence, on the planet, and a scientific expedition has been attempting to make contact...read more

By Hal Clement

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9780345291684 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1980), cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Tenebra has a gravity three times that of Earth, a day temperature at the equator of 380 degrees centigrade, an atmosphere of water mixed with other chemicals, and a constantly shifting crust.

Through the Eye of a Needle

Bob Kinnaird desperately awaits searchers from his distant planet as he discovers the Hunter, a green protoplasmic alien living inside him, is destroying him

By Hal Clement

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9780345284105 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1978), cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Bob Kinnaird desperately awaits searchers from his distant planet as he discovers the Hunter, a green protoplasmic alien living inside him, is destroying him

Star Light

Product Description: The return of Barlennan Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, the 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out for investigation. But its corrosive atmosphere and crushing gravity assured that no human would ever set foot on its surface...read more

By Hal Clement

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9780345273581 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 1978), cover price $1.75 | About this edition: The return of Barlennan Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth.

Left of Africa

Product Description: Book by Clement, Hal

By Hal Clement

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Hardcover:

9780936414010 | Manuscript Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by Clement, Hal

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