advances, because of the way Clement melds the scientific explanations with the characters’ motivations, which in turn drive the plot and create suspense and interest in the story. (Clement, 1954)
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 circling dizzyingly, a world where gravity can be a crushing seven hundred times greater than Earth's, a world too aggressive for human explorers. But the planet holds…
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