Hal Clement

Twenty essays on writing science fiction and fantasy by leading speculative fiction writers. An enjoyable and informative read. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction - Robert A. Heinlein Living the Future: You Are What You Eat - Gardner Dozois Plotting - Isaac Asimov Dialog - Isaac Asimov You and Your Characters - James Patrick Kelly Seeing Your Way to Better Stories - Stanley Schmidt Turtles All the Way Down - Jane Yolen Learning to Write Comedy or Why It's Impossible and How to Do It - Connie Willis Good Writing is Not Enough - Stanley Schmidt The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The World Builder's Handbook and Pocket Companion - Poul Anderson The Creation of Imaginary Beings - Hal Clement How to Build a Future - John Barnes Building a Starfaring Age - Norman Spinrad The Ideas That Wouldn't Die - Stanley Schmidt The Mechanics of Submission - Sheila Williams Revisions - Isaac Asimov Writing for Young People - Isaac Asimov New Writers - Isaac Asimov Authors vs. Editors - Stanley Schmidt Market Resources - Ian Randal Strock

In this sequel to Hal Clement's "Mission of Gravity" human beings have recruited Barlennan and a host of Mesklinites to explore another massive planet named Drawhn. Unable to withstand the planet's extreme gravity, the human beings stay aboard a space station 6 million miles from the planet. While exploring the surface of the planet in a specially designed ship, a group of Mesklinites are surprised by a flash flood which strands them thousands of miles away from their base. The humans, back on the space station, do their best to help, but are unaware of everything the Mesklinites are up to on Drawhn.

Jackie Sees a Star by Marion Zimmer Bradley All Cats are Gray by Andre Norton Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore Travel Diary by Alfred Bester Pythias by Frederik Pohl The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn The Sound of Silence by Barbara Constant The Intruder by Emil Petaja An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse Longevity by Therese Windser The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith Of Time and Texas by William F. Nolan Native Son by Thelma Hamm Evans Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard Small World by William F. Nolan Nightmare on the Nose by Evelyn E. Smith Collector's Item by Robert F. Young Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Doorstep by Keith Laumer The Jovian Jest by Lilith Lorraine Dream World by R. A. Lafferty Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc The Big Engine by Fritz Leiber Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov The One and the Many by Milton Lesser The Glory of Ippling by Helen M. Urban Where There's Hope by Jerome Bixby 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay No Strings Attached by Lester del Rey Zeritsky's Law by Ann Griffith Say Hello for Me by Frank W. Coggins Navy Day by Harry Harrison The Undersea Tube by Lucile Taylor Hansen Probability by Louis Trimble No Shield from the Dead by Gordon R. Dickson I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner Never Stop to Pat a Kitten by Miriam Allen deFord More than Shadow by Dorothy Quick The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul Anderson The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson The Vampire of Wembley by Edgar Wallace Riya's Foundling by Algis Budrys Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper Robots of the World! Arise! by Mari Wolf The Worlds of If by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Adventurer by C. M. Kornbluth Decision by Frank M. Robinson The Waker Dreams by Richard Matheson A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker One-Shot by James Blish McILVAINE'S Star by August Derleth The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton Common Denominator by John D. MacDonald The Natives by Katherine MacLEAN The Lonely by Judith Merril The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Food for Friendship by E. C. Tubb Half Around Pluto by Manly Wade Wellman Project Hush by William Tenn Time Enough At Last by Lynn Venable Bride of the Dark One by Florence Verbell Brown The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson The Next Logical Step by Ben Bova They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip José Farmer Shandy by Ron Goulart Tight Squeeze by Dean C. Ing Extracts from the Galactick Almanack by Laurence Janifer Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg Hot Planet by Hal Clement The Tenth Scholar by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury Strain by L. Ron Hubbard The Time of Cold by Mary Carlson The Customs Lounge by Annie Proulx I, Executioner by Ted White and Terry Carr and many more

A young Phoenician slave becomes involved in the Egyptians' first attempt to circumnavigate Africa.

Hal Clement is a Grand Master of SF, and the one most associated with the subgenre of hard SF. From his classic stories in Astounding in the 1940s through his novels of the 1950s and on to the recent Half Life, he has made a lasting impression on SF readers, and on writers, too. For many of them, Clement's work is the model of how to write hard SF, and this book contains the reasons why. Here are all the tales of bizarre, unforgettable Mesklin: the classic novel Mission of Gravity and its sequel, Star Light, as well as the short stories Under and Lecture Demonstration. Also included is Whirligig World, the famous essay Clement published in Astounding in 1953. It describes the rigorous process he used to create his intriguingly plausible high-gravity planet, with its odd flattened shape, its day less than eighteen minutes long, and its many-limbed, noble natives.

Hal Clement x 7 »Unternehmen Schwerkraft« (TERRA-Sonderband 12) war der Roman, der in den fünfziger Jahren Hal Clements Ruhm als Meister der technischen Extrapolation begründete. Heute freuen wir uns, Ihnen mit »Expedition zur Sonne« eine Sammlung der besten SF-Stories des Autors vorzulegen. Die Kollektion enthält folgende Erzählungen: EXPEDITION ZUR SONNE Sie fliegen in die Strahlenhölle – in einem überdimensionalen Schneeball DIE TAUSENDFÜSSLER Kampf ums Überleben – in der Glut der Deneb-Sonne DER TROJANISCHE PUNKT Ein Mann sucht ein Versteck – mitten im Dschungel der Sterne FEUERFEST Sabotage im freien Fall – die Torpedostation soll zerstört wer- den DER ERNTEPLANET Die Gier treibt sie zum dritten Planeten – zum Paradies für Schlemmer DIE FINDLINGSSTERNE Sie suchen den Ursprung der Schöpfung – und finden den Tod DER MECHANIKER Havarie auf hoher See – die Meister der Regeneration greifen ein

The Star Mouse - novelette by Fredric Brown The Wings of Night - short story by Lester del Rey Cooperate - Or Else! - novelette by A. E. van Vogt (variant of Co-Operate - Or Else! 1942) Foundation - novelette by Isaac Asimov The Push of a Finger - novella by Alfred Bester Asylum - novella by A. E. van Vogt Proof - short story by Hal Clement Nerves - novella by Lester del Rey Barrier - novella by Anthony Boucher The Twonky - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett] QRM - Interplanetary - novelette by George O. Smith The Weapon Shop - novelette by A. E. van Vogt Mimic - short story by Donald A. Wollheim

After his ship crashed on the inhospitable planet Abyorman, Nils Kruger had spent weeks wandering across the face of the planet.suffering from blistering heat, the searing cold of an alien climate. Now he had found a fellow wanderer, Dar, an alien castaway. They may both die. The human opts to do something about it. Dar, who knows the time of his death in advance, opts to do nothing. Which of them is right? Perhaps both

Fortress Ship - short story by Fred Saberhagen Not in the Literature - short story by Christopher Anvil The Totally Rich - novelette by John Brunner No Truce with Kings - novella by Poul Anderson New Folks' Home - novelette by Clifford D. Simak The Faces Outside - short story by Bruce McAllister Hot Planet - short story by Hal Clement The Pain Peddlers - short story by Robert Silverberg Turn Off the Sky - novelette by Ray Nelson They Don't Make Life Like They Used to - novelette by Alfred Bester Bernie the Faust - novelette by William Tenn A Rose for Ecclesiastes - novelette by Roger Zelazny If There Were No Benny Cemoli - novelette by Philip K. Dick

In the Arena, 1963, Brian W. Aldiss The Billiard Ball, 1967, Isaac Asimov The Time-Tombs, 1963, J. G. Ballard "Die, Shadow!", 1963, Algis Budrys The Foundling Stars, 1966, Hal Clement Toys for Debbie, 1965, David A. Kyle Forest in the Sky, [Retief], 1967, Keith Laumer At the Core, [Known Space], 1966, Larry Niven Under Two Moons, 1965, Frederik Pohl Masque of the Red Shift, [Berserker], 1965, Fred Saberhagen