

Anthony Sword
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@BadTony1138
Dad Working Writer DGA Assistant Director Radical Pacifist. I block MAGA









Today, I'm recommending four works by Hal Clement, the dean of hard SF whose fiction was typified by scientific rigor and uncompromising world building. Mission of Gravity (1954): On the crushing, high-gravity world Mesklin, a human scientist enlists the help of a native, centipede-like ship captain to retrieve a lost probe. Needle (1950): A symbiotic alien detective merges with a teenage boy to hunt down a fugitive of his own species hiding amongst the members of a small island community. Iceworld (1953): An alien from a high temperature planet is enlisted to investigate a drug-smuggling operation on a frozen world. "Uncommon Sense" (1945): Clement's most famous short story is a hard SF puzzle in which an explorer, marooned by his mutinous crew, deduces the alien biology of a hostile world and turns it against them to reclaim the ship. Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, and Judith Merril.











@mtaibbi Hmm. . . man you really have gone off the deep end. Is there an address that I can return the books you wrote. You are not that same person who wrote about injustice, now you are a Trumper.







