Series
Needle
Hal Clement · 2 novels · 1950–1978
Hal Clement's Needle follows an alien detective nicknamed the Hunter, a shapeless symbiotic being that can live inside a host body, as it crash-lands on Earth pursuing a fugitive of its own kind and takes refuge inside an American teenager, Robert Kinnaird. Together the mismatched pair must learn to communicate and cooperate, first to survive and later to track down the second alien, which has hidden inside another human in the same Pacific island community. The sequel, Through the Eye of a Needle, published nearly three decades later, continues the Hunter's story.
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The order the books came out.
Map
Needle 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.
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By decade
- 1950s1
- 1960s0
- 1970s1
Shape
2 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensour worldcontemporaryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Through the Eye of a Needledarkest · most intense
- Needlebrightest · calmest