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Hal Clement

Born

in Somerville, Massachusetts, The United States

May 30, 1922

Died

October 29, 2003

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement , was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 17,968 ratings · 1,123 reviews · 183 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1) 3.90 avg rating — 7,761 ratings — published 1954 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Needle (Needle, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1950 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iceworld 3.67 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 1951 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cycle of Fire 3.71 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1957 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Close to Critical 3.48 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 1958 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories 3.83 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Light (Mesklin #3) 3.29 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1970 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Through the Eye of a Needle (Needle, #2) by Hal Clement, H.R. van Dongen (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1978 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nitrogen Fix 3.67 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1980 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Hal Clement by Hal Clement, Lester del Rey (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1945 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Hal Clement

Mesklin (3 books)
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Hal Clement

3.86 avg rating — 8,742 ratings

Needle (2 books)
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Hal Clement,

H.R. van Dongen (Illustrator)

3.78 avg rating — 970 ratings

The Essential Hal Clement (3 books)
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Hal Clement,

Mark L. Olson (Editor),

Anthony R. Lewis (Editor)

3.78 avg rating — 73 ratings

Quotes by Hal Clement (?)

“[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.”
― Hal Clement, Star Light

tags: naivete, youth

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“I’m resigned to living in a chess-type universe—few and simple rules, but infinite combinations of them.”
― Hal Clement, Hot Planet

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Jun2020 BoTM - Golden Age

Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

24 votes, 32.9%

The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke

22 votes, 30.1%

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

18 votes, 24.7%

Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

9 votes, 12.3%

73 total votes

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