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Mission of Gravity 

 (Mesklinite, book 1)

by

Hal Clement

Mission of Gravity

(The first book in the Mesklinite series)
(1954)
A novel by

Hal Clement

"The best account of alien life on another planet."
Thomas M Disch


 

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.
 
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Hardback Editions

May 1997 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0899683363Title: Mission of Gravity
Author(s): Hal Clement
ISBN: 0-89968-336-3 / 978-0-89968-336-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Lightyear Pr
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January 1987 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B001ISOIDSTitle: Mission of Gravity.
Author(s): Hal. CLEMENT
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1978 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B001117596Title: Mission of Gravity (Doubleday Science Fiction)
Author(s): Hal Clement
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January 1954 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B001KUU2RATitle: Mission of gravity
Author(s): Hal Clement
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
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Paperback Editions

October 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0575077085Title: Mission Of Gravity (S.F. Masterworks)
Author(s): Hal Clement
ISBN: 0-575-07708-5 / 978-0-575-07708-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Gollancz
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April 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0575070943Title: Mission Of Gravity (Gollancz SF collector's edition)
Author(s): Hal Clement
ISBN: 0-575-07094-3 / 978-0-575-07094-3 (UK edition)
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February 1989 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0345009932Title: Mission of Gravity
Author(s): Clement Hal
ISBN: 0-345-00993-2 / 978-0-345-00993-7 (USA edition)
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May 1987 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 057504022XTitle: Mission of Gravity
Author(s): Hal Clement
ISBN: 0-575-04022-X / 978-0-575-04022-9 (UK edition)
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June 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0345316223Title: Mission of Gravity
Author(s): Hal Clement
ISBN: 0-345-31622-3 / 978-0-345-31622-6 (USA edition)
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April 1979 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0345270924Title: Mission of Gravity
Author(s): Hal Clement
ISBN: 0-345-27092-4 / 978-0-345-27092-4 (USA edition)
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January 1978 : Paperback
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June 1976 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0450029948Title: Mission of Gravity
Author(s): Hal Clement
ISBN: 0-450-02994-8 / 978-0-450-02994-3 (UK edition)
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January 1974 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B002CUTL4CTitle: Mission of Gravity
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1974 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0515034797Title: MISSION OF GRAVITY
Author(s): HAL CLEMENT
ISBN: 0-515-03479-7 / 978-0-515-03479-0 (USA edition)
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January 1969 : Paperback
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January 1963 : Paperback
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Author(s): Hal Clement
Publisher: Penguin
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January 1962 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1958 : Mass Market Paperback
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Author(s): Hal Clement
Publisher: New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp. / Galaxy Science Fiction Novel # 33 1st Printi
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1955 : Paperback
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January 1954 : Paperback
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1953 : Paperback
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January 1958 : Unknown
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1955 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B000WTUHIOTitle: Mission of Gravity. A novel
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1955 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B001NMVR8ITitle: Mission of Gravity
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