Seventy years in the future, diseases ravage the human race threatening total destruction, and the crew of ship sent to investigate the biochemistry of Saturn's moons may hold the key to humankind's ultimate survival. By the author of Mission of Gravity. 20,000 first printing.

Half Life

Literature & Fiction

CLEMENT, HAL

United States

Tor Books

NEW, Ballantine 1970- Mass Market Paperback 0345019490

Close to Critical

Ballantine Books

"As in his classic novel Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement once more creates a uniquely weird , but consistent world...a world peopled with aliens who are truly alien, yet human in the best sense."

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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

Iceworld

Del Rey

Through the Eye of a Needle [May 12, 1978] Hal Clement and H. R. Van Dongen

Through the Eye of a Needle

For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of Mesklin. But in spite of the incredible technology of the strangers and without regard for their enormous size, Barlennan had the notion of turning the deal to an unsuspected advantage for himself . . . all in all a considerable enterprise for a being very much resembling a fifteen-inch caterpillar! This book also contains Hal Clement's classic article "Whiligig World."

Mission of Gravity

Contemporary

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. Those hardy, caterpillar-like Mesklinites, on the other hand, were ideally suited to explore Dhrawn, and their leader certainly knew a good deal when he saw one. So Barlennan, a shrewd sea captain if ever there was one, struck a sharp bargain with the Earthmen for his services in leading the expedition. But the humans might not have been so pleased with their side of the bargain, if they had known that Barlennan had plans of his own for Dhrawn The stunning sequel to the classic SF novel Mission of Gravity.

Star Light

Science Fiction

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

Close to Critical is a science fiction novel by Hal Clement. The novel was first serialized in three parts and published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1958. Its first hardcover book publication was in July 1964.

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!

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Half Life

Close to Critical

Close to Critical

Iceworld

Through the Eye of a Needle

Mission of Gravity

Star Light

Through the Eye of a Needle

Close to Critical

Iceworld