β Scribed by Harry Clement Stubbs
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Preliminaries; Copyright; Contents; eForeword; Chapter 1 Winter Storm; Chapter 2 The Flyer; Chapter 3 Off the Ground; Chapter 4 Breakdown; Chapter 5 Mapping Job; Chapter 6 The Sled; Chapter 7 Stone Defense; Chapter 8 Cure for Acrophobia; Chapter 9 Over the Edge; Chapter 10 Hollow Boats; Chapter 11 Eye of the Storm; Chapter 12 Wind Riders; Chapter 13 Slip of the Tongue; Chapter 14 The Trouble with Hollow Boats; Chapter 15 High Ground; Chapter 16 Valley of the Wind; Chapter 17 Elevator; Chapter 18 Mound Builders; Chapter 19 New Bargain; Chapter 20 Flight of the "Bree"; About the Author.;When invaluable research equipment is lost on the planet Mesklin, astronaut Charles Lackland is dispatched to the planet's surface to retrieve it. He is aided by the creature Barlennan, a native Mesklinte, and the crew of Barlennan's ocean-going vessel. But Lackland and his alien companions face formidable challenges on the planet, most importantly extreme gravitational conditions. These conditions make Mesklin a ripe region for scientific research as well as a fascinating setting for a page-turning adventure story.
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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 s
Cover Artist: Ed Emshwiller Mission of Gravity is an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on words, one meaning "the force which pulls" & the other being "extremely serious or important". It was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, 47/53. Its 1st cloth publication was in '54. It was 1st
Preliminaries; Copyright; Contents; eForeword; Chapter 1 Winter Storm; Chapter 2 The Flyer; Chapter 3 Off the Ground; Chapter 4 Breakdown; Chapter 5 Mapping Job; Chapter 6 The Sled; Chapter 7 Stone Defense; Chapter 8 Cure for Acrophobia; Chapter 9 Over the Edge; Chapter 10 Hollow Boats; Chapter 11 E
Discover MESKLIN - Gravity: 3g at the equator, 700g at the poles! 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 dicke