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How does this compare to Mission of Gravity? I've had that on my shelf and haven't got around to it yet. It's a very cool setting, and the author was writing
by AlanSE 13y ago
How does this compare to Mission of Gravity? I've had that on my shelf and haven't got around to it yet. It's a very cool setting, and the author was writing it before we had all the research on the subject we have today. And he was correct thankfully!
- gliese1337 13y agoHe actually wasn't 100% correct. If you get the omnibus "Heavy Planet" edition (including a sequel novel "Starlight" and some short stories), it is explained in an appendix that Hal Clement's estimation of the gravitational field was somewhat off, resulting in erroneous values for the maximum field strength at the poles. Still, Hal Clement did a bang-up good job, and the error (or correction there of) doesn't negatively affect the story at all.