Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium

Bright and Clean. 1974 printing. Minor edge wear and rubs, minor page age tanning. 342 pages..

Literature & Fiction

Jack Williamson

Ben BOVA

Gordon R. Dickson

Hal Clement

James Gunn

Frank, Herbert

ANNE MCCAFFREY

frederik-pohl

POUL ANDERSON

History & Criticism

Penguin

Ballantine Books, from 1957; published the same year as the hardcover. Clement's tale of a human and alien joining to fight for survival in a harsh alien landscape.

Cycle of Fire

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Ballantine Books

<p>Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, these 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, caterpillarlike 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....</p>

Star Light (Ballantine Books science fiction)

Ballantine Books Science Fiction

Ballantine Books, 1970. Second printing, paperback. First published in 1965, this is a collection of three tales by a master of "hard" science fiction:  Assumption Unjustified (1946); Technical Error (1944); Impediment (1942).

Natives of Space

Del Rey / Ballantine Books, mass market paperback from 1975. First published in 1957, this is Clement's tale of a human and alien joining to fight for survival in a harsh alien landscape.

Del Rey/Ballantine

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

Ballantine/Del Rey

1st Ace 1980 edition paperback fine condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Nitrogen Fix

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 regarded 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.

Mission of Gravity

Contemporary

New English Library

<p>"Every so often a science-fiction novel is published which is immediately recognized as a classic--a book which makes an instant and lasting appeal to readers, which is read and re-read with increasing enjoyment. A magic combination of character, story and imaginative science is, mainly, what makes such a unique book--and this combination is what has made MISSION OF GRAVITY one of the best-remembered science-fiction novels ever written."</p>

Pyramid

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Corgi Books

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Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium

Cycle of Fire

Star Light (Ballantine Books science fiction)

Natives of Space

Cycle of Fire

Cycle of Fire

The Nitrogen Fix

Mission of Gravity

Mission of Gravity

Close To Critical