Series
Mesklin
Hal Clement · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story · 1 collection · 1954–2002
Mesklin is a fictional planet created by Hal Clement and used in a number of his hard science fiction stories, starting with Mission of Gravity (1954). Alongside the novel's original 1953 serialization in Astounding Science Fiction, Clement published an essay titled "Whirligig World" on how he designed the planet to have the properties he wanted. The idea came from an object that was at the time believed to exist in the 61 Cygni system, and which might represent an extrasolar planet.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Mesklin at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s1
- 1960s1
- 1970s2
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:hard science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Lecture Demonstrationdarkest · most intense
- Underbrightest
- Star Lightcalmest