Mission of Gravity

✍ Scribed by Hal Clement

• Publisher: ePubLibre
• Year: 1953
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 308 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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 dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of Mesklin. But in spite of the incredible technology of the strangers and without regard for their enormous size, Barlennan had the notion of turning the deal to an unsuspected advantage for himself… all in all a considerable enterprise for a being very much resembling a fifteen-inch caterpillar! Here are all the tales of bizarre, unforgettable Mesklin: the classic novel “Mission of Gravity”, as well as the short stories “Under” and “Lecture Demonstration.” Also included is “Whirligig World,” the famous essay Clement published in Astounding in 1953. It describes the rigorous process he used to create his intriguingly plausible high-gravity planet, with its odd flattened shape, its day less than eighteen minutes long, and its many-limbed, noble natives.