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	Hal Clement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 - October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer, a leader of the subgenre hard science fiction.
		Clement received the 1998 recognition as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
		Clement was a frequent guest at science fiction conventions, especially in the eastern United States, where he usually presented talks and slide shows about writing and astronomy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hal_Clement (445 words)

	Hal Clement - Wikipedia
		Clement formó parte del círculo de escritores que John W. Campbell reunió para la revista Astounding.
		Se considera a Clement como el autor más representativo de la ciencia ficción dura, y sus obras, por la verosimilitud y seriedad con que se emplea en el tratamiento científico de las mismas, casi pueden considerarse cursos física, química y astronomía.
		En 1998, Hal Clement fue galardonado con el premio Gran Maestro «por introducir la ciencia dura en la ciencia ficción».
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hal_Clement (228 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Tribute to Hal Clement
		Hal Clement (the pen name of Harry C. Stubbs) was Fan Guest of Honor at the science-fiction convention Armadillocon 21, held September 10-12, 1999, in Austin, Texas.
		Hal bet that this was one of his own lines — but it's a bet he lost (in fact, it's from my novel Golden Fleece).
		Hal didn't commit to coming immediately — he had to check his calendar first; he wasn't about to miss one of his favorite cons, even for that.
	www.sfwriter.com /clement.htm (781 words)

	Hal Clement (1922-2003) - SFWA News
		Hal's honors included being Guest of Honor at the 1991 World Science Fiction Convention, a 1996 retro-Hugo award for his 1945 short story "Uncommon Sense," induction in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998, and receiving SFWA's Grand Master Award in 1999.
		Hal was standing there in the cluster of fans photographing the costumes and having every bit as much fun as one of us "ordinary" science fiction and fantasy fans.
		Hal Clement was a fan first, and a professional writer (and fan-artist) second.
	www.sfwa.org /News/halclement.htm (2463 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: Mission of Gravity (SF Collectors Edition) (Hal Clement) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hal Clement is the pseudonym of Harry Clement Stubbs.
		Hal Clement used the scientific theory and facts of 1953 to build an unusual world and shape an intriguing story.
		Clement created one of the most memorable characters (human or alien) in all SF - Barlennan the Explorer is that rare alien character who, despite the odds, sets out to beat the strange "humans" at their own game.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-0575070943.html (766 words)

	SF Writer Hal Clement Dies at Age 81
		Harry Clement Stubbs, who under the pen name of Hal Clement wrote science fiction for 60 years and was named a Grand Master, died in his sleep at his home in Milton, Mass., Oct. 29, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America reported.
		Clement, considered an exemplar of science-based "hard science fiction," was best known for 1954's Mission of Gravity, about Mesklin, a vast and fast-spinning planet with varying gravity, the SFWA reported.
		Clement is survived by his wife, Mary; two sons, George and Richard Stubbs; and a daughter, Christine Heusel.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1011570/posts (1007 words)

	Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter
		One area where Clement creatively did more work than necessary went clean over my head in the 1960s: the description of the island setting's industry, the `tanks' where engineered bacteria process vegetation into oil products, is so plausible and minutely detailed that I didn't realize this bit was sf.
		Clement is dealing in misdirection here, though, since as in Isaac Asimov's best sf mysteries (The Caves of Steel was also yet to come) the real pointers are psychological -- small behavioural changes in someone who's learned, though not consciously, that injuries are now less painful, heal quickly, and never get infected.
		Being inhabited by four pounds of slimy alien jelly is rather a viscerally disturbing idea, and Clement works hard to establish the Hunter as a sympathetic and ethical viewpoint character well in advance of his initial mistakes in communicating with Bob.
	ansible.co.uk /writing/halclem.html (1543 words)

	Proof by Hal Clement
		Hal Clement is the pen name of Harry Clement Stubbs, a retired schoolteacher and scout leader who began writing science fiction in the 1940s and who devoted himself to the creation of cleverly imagined and thoroughly worked out environments elsewhere in space.
		Early Clement was one of the principal conduits of this super science into Campbell's Golden Age in short fiction.
		When the Russian SF writer Arkady Strugatsky visited the west for the first time, to attend a science fiction convention, the one writer he most wanted to meet was Hal Clement.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Proof.html (525 words)

	Hal Clement: Still Teaching Through Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hal Clement is an award-winning science fiction writer, a bona fide Grand Master of the genre, but he looks more like a high school teacher as he tells a crowd of fans about subjects like "What You Can't Get Away with in Hard SF and How to Do it Anyway."
		Clement is famous for working out all the details of his imaginary worlds, but science still has a way of catching up with science fiction.
		Clement thought his high-gravity world should be an elliptical mass after doing the math on his slide rule, but a group of fans at MIT plugged the data into a computer and came up with a more spherical shape.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/clement_000125.html (1115 words)

	SF Canada Articles - A Tribute to Hal Clement (1922-2003)
		Harry Clement Stubbs, who wrote science fiction as Hal Clement, died in his sleep on October 29, 2003, at his home in Milton, Mass.
		Clement is survived by his wife Mary, two sons, George and Richard, a daughter, Christine Hensel, and a grandson, Jackson.
		I don't know where Hal Clement picked it up, if he did, but I think it is a tribute to hard SF that a book by an author from that era still held such an eerie resonance.
	www.sfcanada.ca /autumn2003/clement.htm (1356 words)

	Noise by Hal Clement
		Hal Clement (1922-2003), while not exactly a household name to many science fiction readers, was one of the most influential SF writers of the last fifty years.
		Clement died in October 2003, just weeks after Noise, his last novel, was published.
		Clement may have been spot-on with his science, but he provides essentially no characterization (unless you count Mike Hoani's exceedingly annoying tendency to think about asking questions, then deciding not to); the dialogue is flat; and the plot is as adrift as the Malolo herself.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Feb04/noise.htm (384 words)

	The Essential Hal Clement Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Clement is known primarily for his hard SF stories with plausible science as the background for many stories.
		Clement's writing is prototypical of the era preceeding the New Age SF of the 60's, if a cut (way) above what most authors can achieve.
		The Essential Hal Clement Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres Review: The Essential Hal Clement 2 offers seventeen of Clement's shortscience fiction, from stories about the outer edges of Earth'satmosphere to deep space exploration, and demonstrate the range of a writer perhaps best known for his alien invasion story 'Needle'.
	www.textkit.com /0_1886778078.html (412 words)

	Hal Clement to be next SFWA Grand Master - SFWA News Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harry Clement Stubbs, who writes under the name Hal Clement, will be named 1998 Grand Master at the Nebula Awards™ banquet this May 1st in Pittsburgh.
		Hal Clement published his first story, "Proof," in 1942, in Astounding Science Fiction, then the premier magazine of the field.
		A clean, spare writer with an ability to dramatize complex scientific ideas in a compelling way, invariably leaves the reader with the sense that the universe is a and wonderful place -- and the laws that govern its behavior equally fascinating and wonderful.
	www.sfwa.org /news/clement.htm (402 words)

	Hal Clement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 - October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer.
		Clement is widely considered to be a leader of the subgenre hard science fiction.
		He first appeared in print with the story "Proof" in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
	www.theezine.net /h/hal-clement.html (433 words)

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		Clement made it work, for his audience, better than Forward, who followed in his footsteps, ever made it work for his own.
		Clement's written a number of entertaining books, but three in particular, from the fifties and sixties, stand out: Mission of Gravity (***).
		The cop lands, and oozes inside of a young boy he finds on the beach, and then has to (a) establish communications with the boy (b) find a criminal who could be hiding inside of any random person.
	sf.www.lysator.liu.se /sf_archive/sf-texts/Belated_Reviews/006.Clement,Hal (934 words)

	Hal Clement
		In a reading at Readercon 1998, portions of this tale reveal, in classic Hal Clement style, that there is a greater mystery on Titan, other than the unknown volatile surface itself, and the scientists are having to risk much more than they suspected...
		Hal Clement published his first story, "Proof," in 1946, in Astounding Science Fiction, then the premier magazine of the field.
		Hal's Pals are grateful to her for the dedication that made this web site possible.
	www.sff.net /people/hal-clement (890 words)

	Interview With Science Fiction Grand Master Hal Clement
		Hal Clement's first science fiction tale was "Proof", which appeared in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine (now known as Analog).
		Additional popular novels by Hal Clement are Close to Critical, Iceworld (in which the Earth is the frozen alien world to the aliens), and Star Light.
		Hal Clement: Part of it was the never-ending search for motive, I suppose.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/clement_howarth_interview_000531.html (1569 words)

	Review: Hal Clement's Heavy Planet and A.E. Van Vogt's The World of Null-A, reviewed by Walter Chaw
		al Clement's 1979 novel, Mission of Gravity, is one of the tent poles of hard science fiction, fashioning an oblong world, Mesklin, where polar gravity reaches into the low 700g-range while counteracting centrifugal force at its equator allows for a more human-friendly 3g.
		The strength of the piece is its clarity and wide accessibility, focusing as it does on the interaction between human handlers and their Mesklinite wards who, as it happens, have an extremely similar psychological constitution to the explorers of Earth's Age of Discovery.
		The crucial difference, however, lies in Clement's extrapolations of the possible based upon known science at the time of its 1953 writing, allowing explanations of the hard science to flow naturally from the narrative.
	www.strangehorizon.com /2003/20030609/foundations.shtml (1026 words)

	Hour 25 - Previous Shows - June 2003
		Hal Clement is one of the persons who has done much to forge science fiction into what it is today.
		Hal Clement's writing has done much to define what science fiction is and set a high standard for comparison for everyone else working in the field.
		But, this being a Hal Clement book where everything is turned on its head in the most logical of ways, that frigid alien world is the Earth.
	www.hour25online.com /Hour25_Previous_Shows_2003-06.html (4549 words)

	Hal Clement Page
		Pictures here are of science fiction Grand Master Hal Clement at a RoVaCon sci-fi convention in Salem, Virginia, in 1991.
		Clement died in his sleep on October 29, 2003.
		Clement was always a gracious guest willing to do a photo shoot or answer any questions.
	www.testermanscifi.org /ClementPage.html (412 words)

	Hal Clement -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He taught chemistry for many years at (Click link for more info and facts about Milton Academy) Milton Academy in (Click link for more info and facts about Milton, Massachusetts) Milton, Massachusetts.
		Clement received the 1998 recognition as a Grand Master by the (Click link for more info and facts about Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
		Various episodes hinge on the fact that Mesklin's fast rotational speed causes it to be considerably deformed from the spherical, and its effective surface gravity to vary from approximately 3 G at the equator to approximately 700 G at the poles.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Hal_Clement.htm (519 words)

	Disappointed in NASA, Hal Clement Looks to Jupiter for Life
		In 1998, Clement became a Grand Master, an award given for lifetime achievement by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
		Clement has some sympathy for arguments that money spent in space should be spent for social programs on Earth instead -- but not much.
		Clement is more optimistic about the prospect that life exists elsewhere in the solar system.
	ww.space.com /sciencefiction/books/clement_space_000125.html (548 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Essential Hal Clement: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The third volume of the New England Science Fiction Association's Hal Clement reprint series is the most important yet because it includes two of Clement's Mesklin novels, Mission of Gravity (1954) and Star Light (1971), both long out of print.
		Dealing with relations between Barlinan, a ship captain from a world that has 800 gravities at the pole (i.e., things are very, very heavy there) and rotates in 18 minutes, and human explorers, the books are foundation stones of hard-science sf.
		Besides the novels, the collection includes Clement's article on the scientific basis of Mesklin, three short stories, and three original critical essays, on whose merits readers can make up their own minds.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1886778086 (265 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Hal Clement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From its beginning, Hal Clement's work has been characterized by the inclusion of complex physical science ideas, lending a new seriousness to the hard-science fiction genre.
		The plot concerns the efforts of the Mesklinite Captain Barlennan and his crew, who are assisting a human team with the recovery of a vital component from a crashed space probe.
		This quality, coupled with his sense that the universe is wonderfully fascinating, has made him a figure of enduring importance to the genre.
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=73 (264 words)

	Exchange Rate by Hal Clement
		Hal Clement is the writing name of longtime science teacher Harry Clement Stubbs - made his first sale in 1942 to Astounding, and became one of the mainstays of that magazine throughout the 50's and 60's, with much of his best short work appearing there.
		Clement's most famous novel is Mission of Gravity, which in retrospect still holds up as one of the best SF books of the 50's.
		In 1999, Clement was given the prestigious Grandmaster Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
	www.loveleaf.net /book/exchange-rateNF.html (276 words)

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