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 . . .

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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 community to which the human race has recently been added.

Time was running out for Bob Kinnaird. Without much warning, the Hunter - the green protoplasmic alien that lived inside him and cured all his ills - had suddenly become his destroyer. Day by day Bob grew weaker and weaker, but only specialists from the Hunter's distant world would know what was wrong with him and, more importantly, how to save him. But the only way searchers from his planet could find him was to locate his missing spaceship . . . a spaceship that had crashed beneath the ocean years before, its location still very much a mystery. Once again leading an investigation against time - as he had done so many years before - the Hunter knew he had to find comrades and find them fast . . . before someone murdered his best friend.

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Four scientists, one guide—and a dangerous beast following their trail. Nothing unusual from the looks of things, except that they are all in a planet far away from Earth. Robin Lampert, Take Mitsuitei, Hans Krendall and Ndomi Sulewayo, and their guide John McLaughlin, get together to scour the wilds of Viridis and take what scientific information the land can offer. They discover puzzling yet wondrous mysteries, yet little do they know that the the land itself is unwilling to give them the answers. **

The return of BarlennanDhrawn 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 DhrawnThe stunning sequel to the classic SF novel Mission of Gravity.

  This sci-fi classic, dating back to before man entered space, is based on the idea that adults would be unable to adapt to zero gravity conditions. Because of this, teenagers would be the first explorers of space, launching to orbiting space stations and the moon.

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 community to which the human race has recently been added.

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COVER BLURB: Some authors you like and some authors you love. From the day I first read Needle I new thar Hal Clement was an author I loved. I heard at one of Joe Green's fabled pre-launch parties of an unpublished Hal Clement novel. I had to read it and, having read it, had to publish it. Here it is: Left of Africa. Some writers write a few great etories and a lot of bad ones. One writer in a hundred hits the beat of your own different drummer and makes you want to read every word he has ever written. For me, Heinlein is one of these special writers, so is Larry Niven, so is Hal Clement. Left of Africa was written before Cycle of Fire and after Mission of Gravity. It is not science fiction. It is a juvenile historical adventure. But it has that same breath of pure reason that makes Hal Clement's science fiction great. Hail Clement has written all too little. I find myself going back to Needle, to Mission of Gravity, again and again. Here is something by Hal Clement that you have never read before. Read and enjoy. Left of Africa is about, among other things, a scientific discovery, one of the most basic scientific discoveries of all time. People have called Arrowsmith science fiction for less, but what we have instead is clesely reasoned, scientifically accurate fiction, another breed of cat but just as enjoyable in its own way. This book is a cooperative effort. Publisher and audior as well as illustrator, printer, typesetter and distributor, will receive equal shares of whatever profits materialize. If this book is sucsecessful, we hope to unearth more unpublished manuscipts by favouite authors. We appreciate your and suggestions.