Stranded on an alien planet, light years from home, wandering from blistering heat to searing cold, Nils Kruger was not a happy man. So when he met another being — even though it wasn’t human — things seemed to be looking up. The alien might...
The blockbuster new novel by science fiction great Hal Clement, set in an alien-run universe created by Isaac Asimov himself. This is the story of six vastly different starfaring races coexisting under a precarious truce — an interstellar...
Un detective alienígena sigue el rastro de un malvado asesino de su misma raza; durante su persecución, se estrella junto a una isla solitaria de la Tierra de 1949. Estos seres necesitan de otra raza para ocupar sus cuerpos, ya que no...
Well known as the author of MISSION OF GRAVITY, CYCLE OF FIRE, CLOSE TO CRITICAL and for his many other extraordinarily realistic creations of extraterrestrials, it is remarkable that Hal Clement's novelettes have never appeared in book form...
Oculto por las eternas tinieblas de su espesa atmósfera. Tenebra era un planeta hostil, un lugar con una gravedad aplastante, con 370 grados de temperatura, con una corteza en perpetuo cambio sobre la que flotaban gigantes gotas de lluvia.
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A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma ...
Enigma 88, a tiny planet in the orbit of Arc, is a world with so little mass that it should have no atmosphere. But it does—and to find out why is the final study assignment that will earn...
Clement’s Mission of Gravity was the engaging tale of the adventures of Barlennan, a sea captain among his caterpillar-like people, on the high-gravity world of Mesklin. In Star Light Barlennan and his sailors go with humans to the even stranger...
Hal Clement. Close to Critical. 1964.
Трижды тяжело жить на Тенебре, одной из шарообразных планет в системе Альтаира, и не потому, что сила тяжести на...