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Mesklin is a
fictional planet created by Hal
Clement and used in a
number of his hard
science fiction stories,
starting with
Mission of
Gravity (1954)...
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expedition across the
superjovian planet Mesklin to
recover a
stranded scientific probe. The
natives of
Mesklin are centipede-like
intelligent beings about...
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include "Whirligig World", an
essay by
Clement on
creating the
planet Mesklin that was
first published in the June 1953 Astounding.
Clement published...
- in fiction. In Hal Clement's 1953
novel Mission of Gravity, the
planet Mesklin's rapid rotation causes it to be
shaped roughly like a flat disk and gravity...
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inaccuracies in stories. For example, a
group at MIT
concluded that the
planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953
novel Mission of
Gravity would have had a
sharp edge...
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First Mate of the Bree, a
merchant vessel of
Mesklin,
which in
Mission of
Gravity sailed to
Mesklin's south pole to
rescue a
probe sent by humans. Now...
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action takes place is
perhaps the
strangest planet invented since Mesklin".
Nicholls &
Clute write that the story,
dealing with
paradoxes of perception...
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Campbell Memorial Anthology in 1973. The
story is set on the
planet Mesklin as used in the author's
novel Mission of Gravity, but in an
earlier period...
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edition Author Hal
Clement Cover artist Paul Lehr
Language English Series Mesklin Genre Science fiction Publisher Ballantine Books Publication date July...
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science fiction writer known for
Mission of
Gravity and
other books in the "
Mesklin series; in Somerville, M****achusetts (d. 2003) Rose Evansky, German-born...
