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Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 - October 29, 2003), better known by the nom de plume Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer, a leader of the subgenre hard science fiction. He was natural within Somerville, Massachusetts When you took the World War II he was a pilot & co-pilot of the B-24 Liberator and flew 35 combat missions over Europe with 8th Air Force. He served in the Army Air Corps Reserve, and retired by using a rank of colonel. He taught chemistry for numerous years at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. He attend Harvard, graduating with the B.S. within astronomy in 1943. When there he published his foremost story, "Proof", in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. His farther training background includes an, M. Ed. (Boston University 1946), and M.S. around chemistry (Simmons College 1963). Clement received a 1998 recognition as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Around 1996 he retroactively received a 1946 Hugo Award for his short story "Uncommon Sense". His right-known novel, Mission of Gravity, is a account of a l& and sea expedition through the superjovian planet Mesklin to recover the stranded scientific probe. A indigene of Mesklinside come centipede-rather intelligent beings astir L centimeters in length. Various episodes hinge on the fact that Mesklin's convenient rotational speed induces it to exist as substantially deformed from either either a orbic, & its efficacious superficial gravity to deviate from more or less Triplet gn at the equator to approximately 700 gnorth at a poles. Clement's article "Whirligig World" describes his approach to writing the science fiction story: "Writing a science fiction story is fun, not work. ... the fun... lies in treating the whole thing as a game. ... the rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict with the facts as science currently understands them. For the author, the rule is to make as few such slips as he possibly can. ... Certain exceptions are made [e.g., to allow travel faster than the speed of light, but] fair play demands that all such matters be mentioned as early as possible in the story..." He likewise painted astronomically orientated art under a title George Richard. Clement was the frequent guest at science fiction conventions, especially in the eastern United States, in which he ordinarily presented talks & slide shows just about writing & uranology.
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Noise Review of the SF novel Noise by Hal Clement. |
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