Hal Clement

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1942
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Mesklinite

Star Light (Jun-1970)
Close to Critical (Dec-1980)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Impediment

    in The Best of Hal Clement
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  • Technical Error

    in The Best of Hal Clement
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Uncommon Sense

    in The Best of Hal Clement
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  • Assumption Unjustified

    in The Best of Hal Clement
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Answer

    in The Best of Hal Clement
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Dust Rag

    in The Best of Hal Clement
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Hot Planet

    Mercury had no atmosphere - everyone knew that. Why was it developing one now? An incredibly pulse-poounding science fiction story by one of the greatest science fiction storytellers of all time, Hal Clement! Fall into the magic of awesome sci-fi at ...

  • Bulge

    in The Best of Hal Clement
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  • Star Light

    Mesklinite

    The return of Barlennan Dhrawn 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 ...



  • Lecture Demonstration

    in Astounding
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Mistaken for Granted

    in The Best of Hal Clement
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Cycle of Fire

    • / Science Fiction
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    Stranded on an alien planet, light years from home, wandering from blistering heat to searing cold, Nils Kruger was not a happy man. So when he met another being—even though it wasn''t human—things seemed to be looking up. The alien mi...

  • Question of Guilt

    in The Best of Hal Clement
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Stuck With It

    in The Best of Hal Clement
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    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, and only specia...

  • Close to Critical

    Mesklinite

    Close to Critical is a science fiction novel by Hal Clement. The novel was first serialized in three parts and published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1958. Its first hardcover book publication was in July 1964....

  • The Nitrogen Fix

    A Nomadic family in the future is allied with an octopus-like alien who can survive in earth's new atmosphere, which has combined with nitrogen. Humans must live in shelters with oxygen-generating plants, or use suitable breathing equipment. Some of ...

  • Mission of Gravity

    For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those str...

  • Still River

    The riddle of enigma...

    Years of exacting study were coming to an end. All five student scientists, each the best its species had to offer, were one step away from their final degrees. One examination remained: The students were to determin...



  • Iceworld

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    As the planet gleamed in his viewport, Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could have produced intelligent life. Yet when the expedition had sent in unmanned landers, that was what it had found. Some sort of native alien, su...

  • Fossil: Isaac's Universe

    Set in a universe created by Isaac Asimov and written by science fiction master Hal Clement, this is the story of six vastly different starfaring races struggling to coexist as they combine their forces for a scientific project on the inhospitable wo...

  • Half Life

    In about two hundred years, the human race on Earth is perhaps facing extinction due to the rapid evolution of disease. A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions ...

  • Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories

    From “a tremendous force in science fiction,” a collection set on the high-gravity planet of Mesklin, and an essay by the author on Mesklin’s creation (Poul Anderson, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of The Broken Sword). Discover MESK...

  • Noise

    Hal Clement, the dean of hard science fiction, has written a new planetary adventure in the tradition of his classic Mission of Gravity. It is the kind of story that made his reputation as a meticulous designer of otherworldly settings that are utter...

  • The Green World

    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 ...

  • The Best of Hal Clement

    Hal Clement, one of the all-time greats of science fiction, was defining hard science fiction before such distinctions were even being thought of. He once described his approach to writing: “[T]he rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reade...

  • The Push of a Finger

    The planet was an enigma -- and its solution was death!...

  • Amazing Stories Volume 117

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hal Clement has published 28 books.

Hal Clement does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Amazing Stories Volume 117, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Hal Clement, Impediment, was published in January 1942.

Yes. Hal Clement has 1 series.
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