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Mission of Gravity

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First published: 1953
Pages: 221

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Hal Clement's "Mission of Gravity" is a hard science fiction book. It centers on native Mesklinte Barlennan and human Charles Lackland on the planet Mesklin. They set out on an expedition to recover a stranded probe from a high-gravity region, but the harsh circumstances of the planet provide difficulties.

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Harry Clement Stubbs

Stubbs kept two working lives deliberately apart: he taught science at a Massachusetts high school for decades, and he published fiction as Hal Clement. Mission of Gravity, serialised in Astounding through the spring and summer of 1953 and issued as a book the following year, is the one that fixed his standing.

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