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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 secrets of inestimable value,
and an unmanned probe that has crashed close to one of its poles
must be recovered. Only the Mesklinites, the small creatures so
bizarrely adapted to their harsh environment, can help. And so
Barlennan, the resourceful and courageous captain of the Mesklinite
ship Bree, sets out on an heroic and appalling journey into the
terrible unknown. For him and his people, the prize to be gained is
as great as that for mankind... Hal Clement's MISSION OF GRAVITY is
universally regarded as one of the most important and best loved
novels in the genre. The remarkable and sympathetic depiction of an
alien species and the plausible and scientifically based
realisation of the strange world they inhabit make it a major
landmark in the history of hard SF.
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